Re: [Xen-devel] dynamically allocating loopback devices?

[Kip Macy <kip.macy@xxxxxxxxx>]

That allows me to bypass the losetup, but what about device
allocation? - the examples I see all look like
disk = [ 'file:/u/kmacy/mdroot-5.3,loop7,w' ]

What I'd really like is to be able to drop the second parameter, or 
do something like

disk = [ 'file:/u/kmacy/mdroot-5.3,*,w' ]

-Kip

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:55:39 -0000, Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > My users' VM disks are all loopback files. Right now they have to run
> > losetup on each of their files before starting their VMs. This means
> > we have to statically allocate loopback devices. And if they want to
> > change the disks used they have to remember to run "losetup -d". Is
> > there any way, without my writing extra glue logic, for a user to say
> > in his config file "these are my loopback files, I don't care what
> > loopback devices they get bound to, just bind them for me and then
> > start my VM"?
> 
> Check out the 'file:' syntax for specifying vbd's.
> 
> Ian
>


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