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

[Neel Natu]

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.

best
Neel

> Thank in advance,
> Nikos
>
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