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RE: [Xen-devel] Partitioning VBDs in unpriviledged domains.



> I'm trying to partition a vbd in an unpriviledged domain, 
> that is an lvm partition exported from dom0. Ideally I'd like 
> to have the partition exported as 
> device /dev/hda. However I can only seem to get it to export 
> as /dev/hda0. I'm using udev on Gentoo, with xen 2.0.1 and 
> linux 2.6.9. Once inside the 
> unpriviledged domain, I can partition the 
> vbd using fdisk, which seems to work. However, it sees the 
> partitions as /dev/hda0p1 etc, which is causing trouble with 
> udev (the device nodes are not 
> created).

Please can you try exporting as 'sda'. Also, please can you try to see
if it works with a 2.4 unpriv kernel. It certainly used to work, but its
possible its never been tested on 2.6.

Thanks,
Ian


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