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[Xen-users] Re: cant use sda on domu

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Subject: [Xen-users] Re: cant use sda on domu
From: Sven Köhler <sven.koehler@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:25:04 +0100
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Nick Couchman schrieb:
> As I stated before, with PV domUs, it doesn't matter what you call the
> devices in the domU config or /etc/fstab as long as you're consistent
> between the two.  PV domUs use the Xen VBD driver, not IDE or SCSI
> drivers, to communicate with the block device, so it doesn't matter if
> it's hda, xvda, or sda

I compiled a domU kernel from vanilla kernel sources.

That kernel didn't seem to support xen devices with the name sda or hda.
They were ALWAYS called /dev/xvda and /dev/xvdb, no matter what i write
in the domU config gile.


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