Re: xen3-dom0 crashed by using NFS mounted image file for domU

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

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:23:56PM -0600, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> > Please try a newer kernel; this may have been fixed since 10/30. If the
> > problem persists, send-pr it.
> 
> If my recollection serves me, file-backed xbd(4)s are done through
> vnd(4)s in the dom0.  vnd(4) (almost) explicitly states that
> images on NFS are not supported.  (And aren't a real good idea to
> start with, IMHO.)
> 
> Has this changed?

There are hacks in the vnd driver to check if the file is on NFS or not,
so I suspect it should work on NFS.

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