Re: Important note for HVM guests backed with LVM

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 2017-01-13 17:37, gary%duzan.org@localhost wrote:
> => And here's my config:
> => disk = [
> =>          'phy:/dev/vg0/freebsd,xvda,w',
> =>
> => 'file:/home/roy/FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso,xvdc:cdrom,r'
> => ]
> =>
> => That matches every piece of documentation I could find.
> => THIS IS WRONG!!!!
> =>
> => Then, by a sheer fluke I found this thread:
> => 
> http://port-xen.netbsd.narkive.com/MF6vPA3P/xen-and-lvm-backed-domu-s
> => https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-xen/2010/03/12/msg005804.html
> =>
> => I said it worked fine, but note the slight difference in stating the
> => device.
> => So I changed my config to this:
> =>
> => disk = [
> =>          'phy:/dev/mapper/vg0-freebsd,xvda,w',
> =>
> => 'file:/home/roy/FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso,xvdc:cdrom,r'
> => ]
> =>
> => And OMG it works fine!
>
>    I've gotten this with PV, too. Having it fixed to work with either
> would be nice, though a doc update would be a reasonable second choice,
> for now.

But that's the thing that got me, the former works fine for my NetBSD PV 
but not for the HVMs.

Roy