Gernot Kieseritzky schrieb:
Hi!
Nick Couchman schrieb:
I'm running SLES10 SP1 and have been using file:/ for my file-backed domUs.
The domUs sit on a shared OCFS2 SAN-backed filesystem and are run on my three
or four XEN servers. I'm having issues with the loopback devices not being
released when the domUs shutdown or migrate, so I decided to switch over to
tap:aio for my file-backed domUs. This isn't working, either. Whereas the
domUs with file: at least boot and run, the domUs with tap:aio: fail with this
error:
Hi Nick,
we're running quite some Xen machines on SLES 10 SP1 here, too.
I tried to switch from file:/ to tap:aio:/ (as xen documentation
recommends),
without success. As far as I can see the creation itself works, but it locks
down the machine shortly after accessing it.
For now I do my testing on Dom0 (it's easier to see what's happening there).
So here's what I tried:
# Create 2 TB sparse file
linux # dd if=/dev/zero of=/proj.stand/xen/disk2 bs=1M count=1 seek=2048000
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1048576 bytes (1,0 MB) copied, 0,018314 seconds, 57,3 MB/s
# Attach it to dom0 as /dev/hdb
linux # xm block-attach 0 tap:aio:/proj.stand/xen/disk2 /dev/hdb w 0
linux # cat /proc/partitions
...
3 64 2097153024 hdb
...
Now fdisk/mount this device - whatever you like.
During my test the machine froze quite fast, however the same tests with
file:/
work quite well - no idea why.
Someone on the list, where this works?
Have you checked that the process "blktapctrl" is running on dom0 (ps ax
| grep blktapctrl)? If not, than your Kernel might be compiled without
blktap support. I'm using Xen with Debian-Etch in dom0 and the debian
xen-kernel has blktap-support disabled by default so I had to build a
custom kernel.
Yepp, should be compiled in: process is running, modules loaded:
linux7:~ # ps -ef | grep blkta
root 3735 1 0 Apr23 ? 00:00:00 blktapctrl
root 15395 15326 0 13:34 pts/9 00:00:00 grep blkta
linux7:~ # lsmod | grep blktap
blktap 124804 2 [permanent]
xenbus_be 8576 3 netbk,blkbk,blktap
Greetings,
Gernot Kieseritzky
Bye,
Marcel
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