Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH]: blktap2 : control function

[Åukasz OleÅ <lukaszoles@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 21 May 2010 18:51:12 eXeC001er wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I tried to create small patch for blktap2 : control function:
> 
> diff -r 840f269d95fb tools/python/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py
> --- a/tools/python/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py Wed May 19 22:59:52 2010
>  +0100 +++ b/tools/python/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py Fri May 21 20:17:15
>  2010 +0400 @@ -3292,6 +3292,7 @@
>                  fn = BOOTLOADER_LOOPBACK_DEVICE
> 
>              try:
> +                time.sleep(5)
>                  blcfg = bootloader(blexec, fn, self, False,
>                                     bootloader_args, kernel, ramdisk, args)
>              finally:
> @@ -3299,7 +3300,7 @@
>                      log.info("Unmounting %s from %s." %
>                               (fn, BOOTLOADER_LOOPBACK_DEVICE))
> 
> -                    dom0.destroyDevice('tap', BOOTLOADER_LOOPBACK_DEVICE)
> +                    dom0.destroyDevice(devtype,
>  BOOTLOADER_LOOPBACK_DEVICE)
> 
>              if blcfg is None:
>                  msg = "Had a bootloader specified, but can't find disk"
> 

I have same error and I resolved it in similar way. It only happens  when I'm 
using pygrub.

> With this patch DomU boot from VHD disk without error.
> 
> But i can not fix other bug:
> 
> if after DomU (boot disk is blktap2-type) stopped i can not start it again,
> because i get error "raise VmError("Device %s is already connected." %
> dev_str)" in "DevController.py".
> 
> but i found workaround:
> 
> stop blktap2_mount: echo 1 > /sys/class/blktap2/blktapX/remove
> remove records from xenstore:
> xenstore-rm /vm/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
> xenstore-write /local/domain/0/vm ""
> 
> Now i can run my DomU again.
> 

I found it too, it's bug in script xen-hotplug-cleanup but I also doesn't know 
right way to solve it.

regards,
Åukasz OleÅ

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