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RE: [Xen-users] Release 0.9.5 of GPL PV Drivers for Windows


  • To: "Geoff Wiener" <gwiener@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 22:53:53 +1000
  • Delivery-date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:54:43 -0700
  • List-id: Xen user discussion <xen-users.lists.xensource.com>
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  • Thread-topic: [Xen-users] Release 0.9.5 of GPL PV Drivers for Windows

> There wasn't any output from debugview unfortunately.  I have another,
> unrelated question for you if you don't mind.  I don't know if this is
> meant to work or not (supported at this stage) so I thought I would
ask.
> Is it possible to have more than one file backed disk in a DomU using
> your drivers?  I tried this using file:/ for two raw image files (not
> sparse) and ran into an issue.   The first disk works fine and
continues
> to work in all cases, the second disk, however, appears in Device
> Manager in two places "Disk Drives" and SCSI and RAID Controllers and
> then under Disk Management.  I have tried every available option for
> partition type on both basic and dynamic disks and get the same
result.
> I can create the partition but when I try to format the disk it gets
to
> 100% then complains "Logical Disk Manager: The format did not complete
> successfully".  It then shows the disk as healthy but it's impossible
to
> use the partition.  It claims that it's still unformatted.  I used
> diskpart to have a closer look at the disk and interestingly it
report:
> 
> Disk: Disk1, Status: online, Size, 2039 MB, Free 0B
> 
> I have definitely created a 2 GB RAW file in Dom0 and it is not sparse
> (confirmed with du-ah).
> 
> Is this supposed to work or am I doing something wrong here?
> 

No that should work. I have done it before without any problems. I don't
know what to suggest at this stage... are there messages in Event Viewer
that might indicate the problem? What about in the Dom0 logs?

James

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