On Thu, Jul 23,
2009 at 06:25:33PM +0800, Teo En Ming wrote:
> Dear Pasi,
>
> I ran "mount /proc/xen" manually *after* the system booted
up, it read
> /etc/fstab, and mounted /proc/xen successfully!!!
>
> Please see the last line of the following "mount" output:
>
> /dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
> /proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
> debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
> udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
> /dev/sda3 on /home type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
> fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
> none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
> gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/enming/.gvfs type
fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=enming)
> none on /proc/xen type xenfs (rw)
>
Yep, now it's mounted :)
> It is very strange that the system did not mount /proc/xen
automatically as
> indicated in /etc/fstab during bootup.
>
Indeed.
> Now I am able to start xend daemon. Please see
>
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zzjv8MCM2sk/Smg7pKoH_JI/AAAAAAAAABU/TVkqEEyLzYQ/s1600-h/xen08.jpeg
>
> And I can see domain 0 using the "xm list" command already!
>
Congrats! :)
> Any ideas how to make /proc/xen automatically mounted while
booting? I
> thought I already have the xenfs entry in /etc/fstab.
>
> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3320620AS_9QF97Q42-part1 swap
swap
> defaults
0 0
> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3320620AS_9QF97Q42-part2 /
ext3
> acl,user_xattr 1 1
> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3320620AS_9QF97Q42-part3 /home
ext3
> acl,user_xattr 1 2
> proc
/proc proc
defaults 0
> 0
> sysfs
/sys sysfs
noauto
0
> 0
> debugfs
/sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto
0
> 0
> devpts
/dev/pts devpts
mode=0620,gid=5 0
> 0
> none
/proc/xen xenfs
defaults 0
> 0
>
> Seems the initscripts did not attempt to mount /proc/xen
during system
> startup.
>
That's weird.. it should be mounted automatically when it's in
fstab.
Maybe it's because sysfs /sys is 'noauto'? Try to change that to
'defaults'.
> Or should I put "mount /proc/xen" in /etc/rc.local?
>
That shouldn't be necessary.
-- Pasi
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