Re: Using file as wd0d

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

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 12:32:43PM +0200, Martti Kuparinen wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Is 'file:/filename,wd0d,w' supposed to work as domU disk?

No, as it would duplicate code from vnd(4), I say use vnd(4) instead :)

> 
> I even tried with vnconfig but the kernel panic immediately:
> 
> disk = [ 'phy:/dev/cd0a,cd0a,r', 'phy:/dev/vnd0d,wd0d,w' ]
> 
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/filename bs=1k seek=20480k count=1
> # vnconfig vnd0 /filename
> # xm create -c /etc/xen/netbsd

This should work, hwoever. I'll look at it.

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