Subject: Re: Creating file-backed VBDs
To: haad <haaaad@gmail.com>
From: Anzi <anzi@dnainternet.net>
List: port-xen
Date: 11/07/2006 08:56:35
haad wrote:

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>>Hello all
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>>What is the correct way to create vbd for netbsd 3 domU in netbsd 3.0.1
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>>Tried:
>>dd if=/dev/zero of=filesystem/nbsd-disk bs=1k count=1
>>newfs  -s 6136830 -F filesystem/nbsd-disk
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>create file with if=/dev/zero of=filesystem/nbsd-disk bs=1024k count=2048 and
>then write this to your xen DOMU conf file
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>disk = ['file:filesystem/nbsd-disk,0,w]
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>then boot netbsd XENU install kernel ,and install system on your vbd backed
>disk.This works for me like a charm.
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Yes it worked like a charm! Thanks, this was giving me a headache!

-Anzi-