I've also noticed that in my dmesg output, these lines appear when I
and create a guest domain and it fails:

xvif3.0: Ethernet address 00:16:3e:01:00:11
vnd0: dos partition I/O error
xbd backend: attach device vnd0d (size 4194306) for domain 3

Anybody know what that "dos partition I/O error" is?

On 11/4/06, Mike Sun <msun@bluespot.org> wrote:
> I'm having similiar issues to what Steve had reported in his thread
> (http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-xen/2006/10/08/0004.html) except
> even after I include "vif = [ 'bridge=bridge0' ]" in my config file, I
> still get the "Error: Device 0 (vif) could not be connected.  Hotplut
> scripts not working." error.
>
> brconfig -a shows the bridge0 interface is up and running:
> bridge0: flags=41<UP,RUNNING>
>             Configuration:
>                         priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15 maxage 20
>                         ipfilter disabled flags 0x0
>             Interfaces:
>                         ex0 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
>                                     port 1 priority 128
>             Address cache (max cache: 100, timeout: 1200):
>                          00:0a:95:d6:1c:8a ex0 4294967143 flags=0<>
>
> Here is my guest domain file contents:
> name = "nbsdu"
> kernel = "/home/msun/netbsd-INSTALL_XEN3_DOMU"
> memory = 96
> vif = [ 'bridge=bridge0' ]
> disk = [ 'file:/home/msun/nbsd-disk,0x01,w' ]
> root = "/dev/wd0a"
>
> I'm running off the binaries from "NetBSD-daily/HEAD/200610250000Z/",
> anybody have any ideas what's going on?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike