Re: maximum number of domains??

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

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 07:08:08PM -0700, joe mcguckin wrote:
>
> Are there any limits to the number of domains you can put on a server? I 
> have a dual quad core opteron box that I was
> trying to stress test xen on. I created 50 domains, and according to xm 
> top, they're running and consuming cpu seconds.
> But, I cannot login to the console of the domains after the 37'th one... 
> I get the following message:
>
> xenconsole: Could not read tty from store: No such file or directory

Looks like you don't have enough /dev/tty*. 
Try:
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV pty{4,5,6,7,8}
(you can go up to 64, but each ptyx will create a fair number of thses).

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