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Re: [Xen-devel] Cannot create domU

On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:43:11AM -0700, Michael Vrable wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:37:59AM -0700, Michael Vrable wrote:
> > Jon Mason made a post yesterday where he tracked the problem down (for
> > him) to the changeset "Move block device bind/unbind into hotplug
> > scripts" (e9d01c5dc7b4d6b7cda9ade0d137ddb89bb204cc).  I was running into
> > the same problem, and so based on his detective work tried installing
> > hotplug (actually hotplug and udev, but the first might be enough) in
> > domain-0.  Domain creation now works for me.
> > 
> > Check to see if you have hotplug installed in your domain-0, and if not,
> > whether installing it makes a difference.
> 
> Actually, more testing shows that for me (minimal Debian sarge
> installation), udev does seems to be needed as well, hotplug alone
> doesn't work.

Okay, hotplug _does_ work, if I reboot before testing.  (Apparently,
having udev installed switches /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug to point to
/sbin/udevsend, but after a reboot hotplug by itself works.)

--Michael Vrable

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