I committed Ceri Storey's block-file and vif-bridge scripts into xentools20 pkg some days ago. Now it's possible to use file: in domU config files. And the vif-bridge scripts also works perfectly on NetBSD without any modification. Maybe the howto should be updated?----- Original Message ----- From: "Johnny C. Lam" <jlam%pkgsrc.org@localhost>
To: "Manuel Bouyer" <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> Cc: <port-xen%NetBSD.org@localhost> Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 3:38 AM Subject: Re: rc.d script for starting Xen domains
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 12:13:23AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:Do you have an idea on how to deal with file-backed domains ? On my production systems I use vnd attached to files for guest domains, and I've not found a nice scheme to deal with this yet.I use a block-file script that's much like the one that was recently committed to the sysutils/xentools20 package. With that script in place, you can use the following in the domain config file to automatically configure the vnd device to attach to the specified file: