Re: [Xen-users] newbie question re block-attach on ubuntu 11.10

[Dan Kegel <dank@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Dan Kegel <dank@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> $ sudo xm block-attach 0 file://home/dank/lvmstuff/foo.img /dev/xvda1 w 0
> $ sudo xm block-list 0
> Vdev BE handle state evt-ch ring-ref BE-path
> 51713 0 0 1 -1 -1 /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/0/51713
> $ sudo mkfs.ntfs /dev/xvda1
> Failed to access '/dev/xvda1': No such file or directory
> The device doesn't exist; did you specify it correctly?
>
> Was I supposed to create /dev/xvda1 myself? I thought Xen
> did that.

The workaround/fix is
sudo modprobe xen-blkfront

Is that traditionally not loaded on dom0?
- Dan

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