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Re: [Xen-users] Hotplug scripts not working / problem with loopback driv

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Hotplug scripts not working / problem with loopback driver
From: Ernst Bachmann <e.bachmann@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 12:02:23 +0100
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On Monday 06 February 2006 11:57, Craig Webster wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just a quick follow-up to say that this problem seems to stop after
> you manually mount the disk image in dom0, try to create one of the
> domUs, unmount the disk image after it fails to mount, destroy the
> dead domU, then start it again. I can now start all of my original
> domUs normally. Still having problems booting into the 5th but this
> is because I've removed the max_loops parameter.
>
> Obviously I'd like to find out what the problem is with mounting the
> disks as loopbacks -- does anyone have any ideas, or suggestions for
> finding out?

Maybe the "loop" kernel module isn't loaded, "mount" auto-loads it while the 
xen startup scripts don't ?

can you start your domains if you "modprobe loop" before?

/Ernst

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