Re: Problems creating a domU

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.lip6.fr@localhost>]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:44:31PM +0100, Juan RP wrote:
> > Arg, I think I see what happens here:
> > brw-r-----  1 root  operator  0,      7 Mar 31  2004 /dev/wd0h
> > brw-r-----  1 root  operator  0, 524288 Mar 31  2004 /dev/wd0i
> > It's an issue with partitions above g.
> > 
> > xen uses a uint16_t for devices numbers, it's not large enouth for NetBSD.
> > This needs to be changed. I noticed this when I started working on this,
> > and then forgot about it.
> 
> Can we change it?

I think we can without compatibility problem (luckily, there is a unused
uint16_t after the device's one in the structure, which can be removed).
I asked Christian if this can be changed on the xen side.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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