[Xen-users] Re: xm block-attach from dom0 and exception looking up device number for /dev/xvda1 - why ?

["Ian Brown" <ianbrn@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,
Sorry, but am I missing something? is my question so silly that nobody
bother to answer?
Ian

On 4/11/07, Ian Brown <ianbrn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to perform "xm block-attach" from dom0 according to the
> Xen blktap README.
>
> What I am trying to do is :
>
> xm block-attach 0 tap:aio:/var/lib/xen/images/guest2/guest2File /dev/xvda1 w 0
>
> whereas "/var/lib/xen/images/guest2/guest2File" is the image which appears
> in the domU cofig file:
> disk = [ 'tap:aio:/var/lib/xen/images/guest2/guest2File,xvda,w', ...]
>
> I see the following error message in /var/log/xen/xend.log: (of dom0
> of course)
>
> [2007-04-11 10:51:24 xend 3123] DEBUG (blkif:24) exception
> looking up device number for /dev/xvda1:
> [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/dev/xvda1'
>
> Indeed, ls -al /dev/xvda1 in dom0 gives:
>   ls: /dev/xvda1: No such file or directory
> and also  running "cat /proc/partitions |grep xvd" from dom0
> gives nothing.
>
>
> I want to add that tring mounting from dom0 onto domU succeeds:
> xm block-attach 1 tap:aio:/var/lib/xen/images/guest2/guest2File /dev/xvda1 w
> (where 1 is the number of domU).
> Also mounting /dev/xvda1 from domU succeeds.
>
> Any idea ? what should I do so that it will succeed ? is this readme
> not valid anynmore ??
>
>
> Ian
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