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Re: [Xen-users] Problems booting domU from lvm with multiple LV's

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Problems booting domU from lvm with multiple LV's
From: Jai <awayatm@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:14:43 +1000
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Sometimes all it takes is the act of trying to explain it to an email to understand the problem.... Turns out I had incorrect entries in / etc/fstab vs the xvd? in the domU image. It now boots as expected.

I thank you for your response.

Cheers,
Jai

On 23/07/2008, at 6:47 PM, Stephan Seitz wrote:

Hi,

could you send your domU config please?

I assume the disk entry is garbled. If your vg is named LVM and your
lv's are named LV1 and LV2 this line reads e.g.

disk = [ 'phy:/dev/LVM/LV1,xvda1,rw','phy:/dev/LVM/LV2,xvda2,rw' ]

cheers

Stephan


Jai schrieb:
Hi,
I'm having difficulty understanding why my domU image will not boot if there are more than 1 disk device from the same LVM volume group allocated to a domU.
For example:
The basic diagram below tries to show how my disk stacking is setup.
------------------------
|       /       |  /usr     |
------------------------
|          domU         |
------------------------
|   xvda1 |  xvda2 |
------------------------
|   LV1     |   LV2   |
------------------------
|            LVM          |
------------------------
|      /dev/drbd0     |
------------------------
|       /dev/sda1      |
------------------------
For some reason creating a domU in this configuration results in a message; "Error: Device 51729 (vbd) could not be connected. Hotplug scripts not working. "
in the logs there are entries with;
"[2008-07-23 14:51:58 xend 8058] DEBUG (blkif:24) exception looking up device number for xvda1: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: \047/dev/xvda1\047" "[2008-07-23 14:51:58 xend 8058] DEBUG (blkif:24) exception looking up device number for xvda2: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: \047/dev/xvda2\047" But if I boot a domU with only 1 logical volume assigned to the domU (see diagram below) the VM boots without problems.
-------------
|        /       |
-------------
|   domU  |
-------------
|   xvda    |
-------------
|   LV1     |
------------------------
|            LVM          |
------------------------
|      /dev/drbd0     |
------------------------
|       /dev/sda1      |
------------------------
I have trolled the net looking for some answers but none seem to provide one. Any help on what may be the cause would be greatly appreciated. I can provide config examples if that will help, but at this stage I'm thinking it may be a bug and not wrong configuration. I may be wrong though :)
Thanks.
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