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Re: [Xen-users] Re: VMWare and xen comparison

To: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Re: VMWare and xen comparison
From: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 13:18:52 +0100
Cc: Black Dew <bdew@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, ian.pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Charles Duffy <cduffy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Gerd Knorr wrote:
Also
parted isn't very happy with the xvd disks because the ioctls to inform the kernel about partition layout changes don't work on these (yet?),

I'd have thought that would be a trivial patch. Please could someone
take a look.

It's fixed meanwhile (last time I tried was a few weeks ago), I've noticed yesterday after writing the mail while trying to find a fix ;)

Uhm, well, seems there _is_ some problem. The kernel or parted seems to be unhappy in case you boot with a zero'ed virtual hard disk, maybe due to missing geometry information or something like that. When booting with some partition table adding and removing partitions at runtime works ok.

cheers,

  Gerd

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