[Fwd: Will Xen 3.0 support (at least domU) be available ?]

[Yuan, Jue]

Hi Ari,

On 9/26/06, Ari Suutari <ari at suutari.iki.fi> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yuan, Jue wrote:
> >
> > I tested freebsd-XENU_INSTALL under kubuntu 6.0.6 as dom0. don't know
> > why this happens. I will check this issue later :-)
>
>         OK, I can consider running debian as dom0 if that is needed
>         (but I would like to stick in the bsd family :-)
> >
> >> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/xbd769a
> >> Mount point / had 1 dangling refs
> >>
> >>
> >>         The root filesystem is file based and has been created on another
> >>         FreeBSD machine, so it should be ok. What is that number "769" in
> >>         xbd device ? Is it same for all installations ?
> >>
> >
> > the magic number here is due to the major and minor device number of
> > Linux. maybe this is not the case while you are using NetBSD. Anyway,
> > the first thing you should check is the fstab file in your file-backed
> > image.
>
>         It is not looking at fstab yet, this is the mount specified
>         by extra += ",vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/xbd.... in xen config file.
>
>         I tried guessing the number, but had no luck :-(
>
the "vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/xbd769a" thing must be matched with
what's in fstab of your image file in order to get it working :-)


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