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Re: [Xen-users] Unable to deploy a VM on xen 3.0.3

To: Omer Khalid <Omer.Khalid@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Unable to deploy a VM on xen 3.0.3
From: Tim Post <tim.post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:04:35 +0800
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On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 11:45 +0100, Omer Khalid wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to launch a VM with xen 3.0.3 but it complains about
> "Device sda is already connected".  I have already mounted my
> distribution image in the LVM partition /dev/vg1/domSLC4OldRoot and
> there is a swap partition for that as well. 
> 
> I have also included the xen configuration file!
> 
> Any ideas? Many thanks

You may want to re-examine this line of your configuration :

> disk =
> ['phy:vg1/domSLC4OldRoot,sda,w','phy:vg1/domSLC4OldSwap,sda,w' ]

You can't swap to the root file system, nor can one vbd magically become
two. 

Make the root fs sda1, swap sdb1, or something similar. 
                                                                          
> CERN – European Organization for Nuclear Research

Now *that* ***really*** frightens me :)

Best,
-Tim


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