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Re: [Xen-users] vbd device failures

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] vbd device failures
From: Michael Mey <michael.mey@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 10:19:29 +0100
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On Wednesday 04 January 2006 08:14, Anand Kumria wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm experiencing vbd device failures; it appears as if the device nodes
> are being allocated but not de-allocated.
>
> Initially the devices were marked as /dev/hda[1,2]; and when they failed to
> work I changed them to be /dev/sda[1,2].  However I now find that I can no
> longer boot this domU irrespective of how I specify the disks.  As you can
> see at the end, the images themselves exist
>
> I am running xen-3.0.0 built from source; any insight or suggestions
> appreciated.
>
> varuna:~# grep "^disk" /etc/xen/fai-machine
> disk =
> ['file:/vserver/images/fai.img,hda1,w','file:/vserver/images/fai-swap.img,h
>da2,w']

Hi Anand, 

I am not sure if this currently still an issue, but I experienced that you 
have to leave a blank between the brackets and the quotes at the disk-line in 
your config file:

disk = 
[ 'file:/vserver/images/fai.img,hda1,w','file:/vserver/images/fai-swap.img,h
da2,w' ]

Michael

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