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Re: [Xen-users] Mounting swap fails in domU (badiane)

To: badiane Ka <badiane_ka@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Mounting swap fails in domU (badiane)
From: Ted Kaczmarek <tedkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:21:23 -0400
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On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 12:09 -0400, Guy wrote:
> Has anyone experienced a swap failing to be mounted in domU's?
> 
> I created a LVM swap space, ran mkswap and made it available on the same 
> line as the root partition (also on LVM) in each of the domU's config file.
> 
> But it fails to be mounted and I'm running without swap space.  That 
> wouldn't be too much of a problem if I had a lot of mem to play with but 
> it's unfortunately not the case.
> 
> Support for swap is compiled into the domU's kernel and it's written to 
> the fstab of the domU's.
> 
> Could it be that the partition is of type 82?  I'm pulling stuff from 
> thin air here.
> 
> I would appreciate some help in resolving this problem.
> 
> Badiane
> 

I had the same problem, did you run the mkswap from the domU?

Have you rebooted the dom0?

Don't know why, but this fixed a problem I had with Debian 3.1 guests
using the jaitime.org images. No other distro I have tried seem to have
had this problem.

Regards,
Ted



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