Subject: Re: port-xen/29775: Cannot use a vnode disk for domU
To: None <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/30/2005 18:52:25
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 05:42:00PM +0000, juan@xtraeme.nopcode.org wrote:
> >Description:
> 	With -current Xen sources, I want to create a domU using
> 	a vnode disk in a file:
> 
> 	$ dd if=/dev/zero of=mydisk.img bs=1k seek=20480k count=1
> 	$ vnconfig vnd0 mydisk.img
> 	
> 	$ grep vnd0 /etc/xen/netbsd
> 	disk = [ 'phy:/dev/cd0a,cd0a,r', 'phy:/dev/vnd0a,wd0d,w' ]
> 	$
> 
> 	The system will crash.

I reclassified this from port-xen to kern, as it's really a problem in the
vnd driver.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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