Well, I haven’t tried, and this may be bad
advice, but  what about a hardlink?
Dustin
 
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Dustin, 
Yes I had.  Replacing the image path in the configuration did make it work
and I knew this before posting.  I guess my question was a bit simple.
 I should have asked has anyone done this and had it work for them.  
Thanks for your response. 
-- 
Bobby Cox 
From: Dustin Henning <Dustin.Henning@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 15:00:11 -0500
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Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Xm Create Image Path
I don’t know ,but since no one has replied, have you tried using the true path
instead of the local one for testing?  Simply modifying the config to replace
/home/fred/ with /var/ would answer that, right?
Dustin
 
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Subject: [Xen-users] Xm Create Image Path
All, 
Is is possible for xm create foo.cfg to traverse a symlink to access the
foo.img.  Here’s an example config and the resulting error..
---
name = "jim"
memory = "512"
disk = [ 'phy:/dev/VolGroup00/foo,xvda,r', 
         'tap:aio:/home/fred/local/jim/build/foo_swap.img,xvdd,w',
         'tap:aio:/home/fred/local/jim/build/foo.img,xvdb,w'
]
vif = ['bridge=xenbr0']
bootloader="/usr/bin/pygrub"
vnc=1
vncunused=1
---
sudo xm create build/jim.cfg 
Using config file "./build/jim.cfg".
Error: Device 51728 (tap) could not be connected.
/home/fred/local/jim/build/foo_swap.img does not exist.
The symlink is local which points to /var/local
local -> /var/local/
Regards, 
-- 
Bobby Cox