Re: [Xen-users] domU can not start in Xen 4.0.1-rc3-pre using tapdisk

[Luís Silva <luis.silva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I think that in order to use tap devices with pvops kernel you have to use "tap2:aio:path_to_file". At least it works for me... Even for 4.0.1 rc2 I had to use "tap2:tapdisk:aio:...".

Luís
On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 11:01 -0400, Jia Rao wrote:
>     The domU is using pygrub to boot its own 2.6.18.8-xen kernel. It can be booted successfully under 2.6.18.8-xen dom0 and xen 3.3.1.
>     
>     
>     However when upgrade dom0 to 2.6.32.15 and xen 4.0.1-rc3-pre, the domU can not boot with tapdisk. I am wondering it is something related to the blktap driver.
>     
>     
>     When using tap:aio: PATH/disk.img in domU disk configuration, the boot process hanged at a prompt:
>     XENBUS: Waiting for devices to initialise: 295s...290s...
>     Then after reboot, the domU can not mount the filesystem /dev/root and kernel panic.
>     
>     
>     When using tap:tapdisk:aio PATH/disk.img. the booting process terminated at a error:
>     Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'aio:/PATH/disk.img'
>     
>     
>     When using file:PATH/disk.img, domU can boot successfully.
>     
>     
>     Thus I am afraid it is somethin wrong with tapdisk driver in dom0
>     
>     
>     FYI
>     dom0: 2.6.32.15 centos 5.4
>     dom0 config: 
>     CONFIG_XEN_BALLOON=y
>     CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES=y
>     CONFIG_XEN_DEV_EVTCHN=y
>     CONFIG_XEN_BACKEND=y
>     CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND=y
>     CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_BACKEND=y
>     CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_TAP=m
>     CONFIG_XEN_BLKBACK_PAGEMAP=y
>     CONFIG_XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND=y
>     CONFIG_XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND_VPCI=y
>     CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND=m
>     CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND=m
>     
>     
>     I did load the modules: blktap xen_blkfront xen_netfront before starting xend.
>     
>     
>     xen: 4.0.1-rc3-pre
>     
>     
>     any ideas?
>     
>     
>     Thanks.
>     
>     
>     
>     
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