Re: [Xen-users] Unable to deploy a VM on xen 3.0.3

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Omer Khalid wrote:

Make sure when you try to start it that your LV are not already mounted 
as you seem to say in your notes.
Xen by default cannot export mounted device as far as I know.

++
> Thankyou for point it out Tim but I made that change earlier, upon the 
> advice of Zhang, but it still did't work.
> Don't be frightened with the word **Nuclear** in CERN's name!
>
> Cheers
> OMER
>
> On 12/14/06, *Tim Post* <tim.post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:tim.post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>     On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 11:45 +0100, Omer Khalid wrote:
>     >
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > I am trying to launch a VM with xen 3.0.3 but it complains about
>     > "Device sda is already connected".  I have already mounted my
>     > distribution image in the LVM partition /dev/vg1/domSLC4OldRoot and
>     > there is a swap partition for that as well.
>     >
>     > I have also included the xen configuration file!
>     >
>     > Any ideas? Many thanks
>
>     You may want to re-examine this line of your configuration :
>
>     > disk =
>     > ['phy:vg1/domSLC4OldRoot,sda,w','phy:vg1/domSLC4OldSwap,sda,w' ]
>
>     You can't swap to the root file system, nor can one vbd magically
>     become
>     two.
>
>     Make the root fs sda1, swap sdb1, or something similar.
>
>     > CERN – European Organization for Nuclear Research
>
>     Now *that* ***really*** frightens me :)
>
>     Best,
>     -Tim
>
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