[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Creating partitions on domain U
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 03:05:08PM +1300, Jerome Brown wrote: > | Does a guest (domain U) have the ability to create partitions on a > | virtual disk drive (/dev/hda1)? For example, can I use parted/fdisk to > | create my own partitions on a VBD from within domain U? > > I assume it does, though I haven't tried it. However I would say to > export the device as the whole disk (eg /dev/hda) as opposed to a > partition (eg /dev/hda1), as parted/fdisk are likely to complain about > trying to partion a partion. even that doesn't work: maybe they partition the device (after heavily complaining about unsupportet ioctls; maybe it's the get-geometry ioctl that isn't correctly implemented, because also "sfdisk -g /dev/hda" fails). After partitioning, the kernel-re-read-partitiontable ioctl fails. shutting down domU and "fdisk -lf $vbdlocation" shows it has been partitioned. booting the domU machine again leads to the following situation: the kernel doesn't see any partitions. /proc/partitions shows a strange mapping of minor 0 to /dev/hda0 instead of /dev/hda, no minors are assigned to any partition (but once again, fdisk /dev/hda sees the partitions). -- c u henning ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
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