Re: Plan9 Installation Difficulty

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

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:57:16AM -0400, Jeff wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to install a Plan9 domU.  I am running NetBSD -current and
> Xen2.
> 
> Now, I understand this may be a question better directed at the Plan9
> folks, but I see this comment in the config template:
> 
> #
> # VDEV doesn't really matter for a NetBSD guest OS, but it does for
> # Linux.
> # Worse, the device has to exists in /dev/ of domain0, because xm will
> # try to stat() it. This means that in order to load a Linux guest OS
> # from a NetBSD domain0, you'll have to create /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2,
> # ...
> # on domain0, with the major/minor from Linux :(
> 
> And the boot hangs at:
> 
> #S/sd00/: part cdboot 187928 193688
> #S/sd01/data: no partitions
> root is from (local)[local]:
>                              kfs...
> 
> 
> That leads me to believe that I need to create /dev/sd00 and /dev/sd01
> heirarchies.
> 
> Is this a fair assumption?  Has anyone done this and can lend some
> advice?

I don't think you need to go this way; what xentools really needs here is
just a device number. The comment in the config file is not accurate, you
don't have to have a device in /dev/ because you can put a hex number
directly here.

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