Re: [Xen-users] "disks" -- Not understanding the docs at all

[Jeff Blaine <jblaine@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Mark.

The whole disk naming method did not work.  The specific
method did work.

I mknod'd /dev/console and /dev/null to fix the "Warning:
unable to open initial console" message/hang and have
VM1 running now.

Mark Williamson wrote:
> > 2.  sdb = Contains a fresh install of Fedora Core 3 to
> >           be used for domains, as prompted by the following:
> >
> >             "The first step in creating a new domain is
> >             to prepare a root filesystem for it to boot off.
> >             Typically, this might be stored in a normal
> >             partition, an LVM or other volume manager partition,
> >             a disk file or on an NFS server. A simple way to
> >             do this is simply to boot from your standard OS
> >             install CD and install the distribution into
> >             another partition on your hard drive."
> >
> >           sdb1 = /
> >           sdb2 = swap
> >           sdb3 = /tmp
> >           sdb5 = /var
> >           sdb6 = /data
>
> Try:
> disks = ['phy:sdb,sdb,w']
>
> If that doesn't work (I can't remember if exporting whole disks works) then 
> export the partitions individually:
> disks = [ 'phy:sdb1,sdb1,w', 'phy:sdb2,sdb2,w', 'phy:sdb3,sdb3,w' ... and so 
> on.
>
> >      Set the first entry in this list to calculate the>       offset of the 
> domain's root partition, based on the
>
> >      domain ID. Set the second to the location of /usr if you
> >      are sharing it between domains (e.g. disk =
> >      ['phy:your_hard_drive%d,sda1,w' % (base_partition_number
> >      + vmid), 'phy:your_usr_partition,sda6,r' ]"
> >
> > I understand the Python array creation in that and nothing
> > else :)
>
> This is a more advanced feature of the comfig files, intended to allow you to 
> pass an additional variable "vmid" into "xm create" and automatically 
> generate the disk, network, etc settings for several domains using a single 
> config file.  It's rarely used and for your configuration you should probably 
> ignore it.
> Cheers,
> Mark

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