Re: [Xen-users] cannot boot any domU

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > using the same swap partition twice for the domU won't work..
>
> Ok, good to know. Thanks.

Just for the record: don't share any block devices writably between a domU and 
dom0.  The tools will try to stop you doing that but it may not always be 
able to prevent you.  Having multiple writers to any normal disk filesystem 
(swap partitions too) will cause Really Bad filesystem trashing.

Cheers,
Mark

> > disk = [ 'phy:/dev/hdc1,hda1,w', 'phy:/dev/hdc2,hda3,w']
> >
> > is probably what you want (if you have unused swapspace in hdc2 and have
> > set up domU to swap on /dev/hda3)
>
> I do have /dev/hdc2 set up as additional swap, so I made the
> edit and tried again. Unfortunately it did not help (though it
> sounds like it wasn't really expected to help with the crash).
>
> Just to be pedantic I also tried configuring with no swap
> visible, ie.
>
> disk = [ 'phy:/dev/hdc1,hda1,w']
>
> but as probably expected that did not help.
>
> I expect the problem is that I am doing something so dumb it
> is not easy to see...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Scott
>
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