Re: Xen won't start its device backend?

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

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:29:13PM +0200, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
> Hi Manuel,
> 
> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:11:36PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > When booting with a XEN3_DOMU kernel, it shows up normally and can be mounted
> > > fine, so i guess its qemu going wrong?
> > 
> > Yes, probably. try using /dev/rwd1d instead of /dev/wd1d maybe ?
> 
> Xen seems to only want to use block devices.
> 
> I think i've found the issue though! Xentools42 is creating qemu-system-i386
> on this amd64 system. Could that result in the crippled harddisc access?

No, I think qemu-system-i386 is the right name.
Do you have errors in logs when trying the raw device ?

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