virtio disk device file "/dev/hast/shared" does not exist. Creating it ...

[Nikos Vassiliadis]

On 08/01/15 03:23, Neel Natu wrote:
> Hi Nikos,
>
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 6:53 AM, Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass at gmx.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> While trying to use a HAST device as my storage I got this message.
>>
>>> Booting...
>>> virtio disk device file "/dev/hast/shared" does not exist.
>>> Creating it ...
>>> GDB: no debug ports present
>>> KDB: debugger backends: ddb
>>> KDB: current backend: ddb
>>> Copyright (c) 1992-2015 The FreeBSD Project.
>>> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
>>
>>
>> Does anybody know what "creating it" mean in this regard?
>>
>
> I assume you are using vmrun.sh to start the virtual machine.
>
> If the backing file for the virtio disk device does not exist then the
> script will create it before launching the virtual machine.
>
> See 'make_and_check_diskdev()' function in vmrun.sh.

Oh thanks, didn't notice it was the script!