Daniele Palumbo wrote:
> On Monday 15 January 2007 16:36, Henning Sprang wrote:
>>> i want a volume, in read only, that does not need to know anything about
>>> xen. i tried "r!" in config file, but it is not a valid flag (BTW, IMHO
>>> it should be, like w!).
>> I don't understand what the problem is:
>> "r" (without exclamation mark!) should work in disk parameters for vm
>> config. It works at least for cdroms, did not try much for normal
>> filesystems.
>>
>> So, you can configure something like
>> 'phy:/dev/vm-filesystems/common-kernel-modules-partition,hda1,r' for
>> all systems, and mount hda1 to /lib/modules.
>>
>> Please show us your disk config and the error it produces.
>
> disk = [ ...,
> 'phy:/dev/Xen2Volume/domU-kernel-needed,/dev/sdb1,r' ]
>
> when /usr/src/domU-kernel-needed/ mounted in rw,
> ---
> xen2 ~ # xm create -c gentoo-x86.xm
> Using config file "/etc/xen/gentoo-x86.xm".
> Error: Device 2065 (vbd) could not be connected.
> Device /dev/Xen2Volume/domU-kernel-needed is mounted read-write in the
> privileged domain,
> and so cannot be mounted read-only by a guest.
> xen2 ~ #
> ---
>
> bye
> d.
So what would you expect a guest to do when it has blocks cached, the
host updates some, but the guest never expects them to be updated?
--
Christopher G. Stach II
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