Re: [Xen-users] Re: VMWare and xen comparison

[Gerd Knorr <kraxel@xxxxxxx>]

Gerd Knorr wrote:
> > > Also
> > > parted isn't very happy with the xvd disks because the ioctls to 
> > > inform the kernel about partition layout changes don't work on these 
> > > (yet?), 
> > I'd have thought that would be a trivial patch. Please could someone
> > take a look.
> It's fixed meanwhile (last time I tried was a few weeks ago), I've 
> noticed yesterday after writing the mail while trying to find a fix ;)
Uhm, well, seems there _is_ some problem.  The kernel or parted seems to 
be unhappy in case you boot with a zero'ed virtual hard disk, maybe due 
to missing geometry information or something like that.  When booting 
with some partition table adding and removing partitions at runtime 
works ok.
cheers,

  Gerd

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