Re: [Xen-users] Xen 3.0.1, Debian Sarge: Swap file not recognized in guest

[Rene Kogels <forumuser@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jens-Christian,

You might want to check the following URL:
http://usefulthings.org.uk/operating-systems/linux/suse/xen-and-suse-93

Although it's focused on Suse, it could be useful.

Rene

On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 09:55 +0100, Jens-Christian Fischer wrote:
> I have installed Xen 3.0.1 on a Debian Sarge base system (see [1],
> [2], [3] for details) with image files as drives for the guest
> operating system.
> 
> My problem is, that the swap "device" on /dev/sda2 is not recognized
> by the guest OS:
> 
>     INIT: version 2.86 booting
>     * Files under mount point '/dev/shm' will be hidden.
>     Will now activate swap.
>     swapon on /dev/sda2
>     swapon: cannot stat /dev/sda2: No such file or directory
>     * Swap activation failed with error code 255.
>     Will now check root file system.
> 
> the configuration file looks like this:
> 
>     kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-xenU"
>     memory = 512
>     name   = "notes"
>     root   = "/dev/sda1 ro"
>     vif    = [ '' ]
>     disk   = [ 'file:/home/xen/domains/notes/big.img,sda1,w',
> 'file:/home/xen/domains/notes/swap,sda2,w' ]
> 
> and /etc/fstab
> 
>     /dev/sda1       /       ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro      0       1
>     /dev/sda2       none    swap    sw
>     proc            /proc   proc    defaults
> 
> I tried both "sda" and "hda" devices - with no change in behaviour.
> 
> /dev/sda2 is not visible in the guest operating system.
> 
> An older image with the debian base system (base-config not yet
> executed) that the above image was evolved from works fine:
> 
>     INIT: version 2.86 booting
>     Activating swap.
>     EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
> 
> Any ideas? My Xen-fu is quite young :-)
> 
> thanks
> Jens-Christian
> 
> 
> [1]: http://blog.invisible.ch/2006/03/09/installing-xen-30-on-debian-sarge/
> [2]: 
> http://blog.invisible.ch/2006/03/14/installing-lotus-domino-654-in-debian-xen/
> [3]: 
> http://blog.invisible.ch/2006/03/18/configuring-x-and-domino-server-on-debian-sarge-xen/
> 
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