Re: Creating file-backed VBDs

[Anzi <anzi%dnainternet.net@localhost>]

haad wrote:

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> > Hello all
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> > What is the correct way to create vbd for netbsd 3 domU in netbsd 3.0.1
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> > Tried:
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=filesystem/nbsd-disk bs=1k count=1
> > newfs  -s 6136830 -F filesystem/nbsd-disk
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> create file with if=/dev/zero of=filesystem/nbsd-disk bs=1024k count=2048 and
> then write this to your xen DOMU conf file
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> disk = ['file:filesystem/nbsd-disk,0,w]
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> then boot netbsd XENU install kernel ,and install system on your vbd backed
> disk.This works for me like a charm.
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Yes it worked like a charm! Thanks, this was giving me a headache!

-Anzi-