Re: [Xen-users] Xen and LVM

[Richard Thomas <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The problem though is its not even getting to load the OS, it refuses to 
even mount the partition saying its already mounted by another guest ( I 
am using full partitions not a loopback file system ).
All 4 domains where created at the same time using the same image and 
they randomly work or don't work its not a specific issue.
Sometimes the problem is related to allowing access to the seperate swap 
partitions not the OS partition as well, In that case when its playing 
that game I have tried redoing the swap partition 100% and it still says 
its already in use by another guest os

Richard Thomas - CEO
Cyberlot Technologies Group Inc.
507.398.4124 - Voice


Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> Richard Thomas wrote:
>
> > I downloaded it from somewhere, centos image.. It runs with the older 
> > version of Xen without a problem so the image does work.
>
> unfortunately, I have found that if it runs with an older version of 
> xen, it will fool you by mostly running on 3.0.  I would seriously 
> recommend building a new guest image.  It's not terribly difficult, only 
> time tedious.  the steps below work for me on ubuntu but there's nothing 
> keeping it from being distribution independent.
> "install" onto a file disk image using qemu
> create a new partition-less disk image
> mount the root partition on a loopback device using losetup
> mount your partition-less disk image also using a loopback device.
> cp -a from the root partition to the partition-less disk image
> cp -a domU modules onto the partition-less disk image
> fixup fstab, host names, ethernet interface definition (there are 
> probably more but I can't remember right now)
> unmount everything (very important as my recent experiences shown ;-))
>
> Create your .xm file
>
> xm create ...
>
> I believe this will give you better results.  Or if you prefer, I can 
> also make available an ubuntu very raw disk image (i.e. fresh out of the 
> qemu oven).
> ---eric
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