Re: [Xen-users] change file: to tap:aio

[Sebastian Biedermann <biedermann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 16:42 +0200, Sebastian Biedermann wrote:
> > Dear List,
> >
> > I try to start a guest instance on hardware node-2 and the image is
> > located on hardware node-1.
> > The plan is to do live migration between the two nodes in later steps.
> > For this, I configured a NFS server on node-1 dom0 which provides the
> > image and I mount the filesytem on dom0 node-2.
> >
> > I found out, that booting the instance remotley on node-2 using
> >
> > disk = ['file:/xen/XenGuest1.img,xvda1,w', 'file:/xen/XenGuest1.swap,xvda2,w']
> >
> > in the cfg file is not working, because I have to use 'tap:aio:' instead
> > of 'file:'
> >
> > I can boot the instance locally on node-1 using the 'file:'
> > configuration, but not remotely on node-2.
> > If I do, I get the error during the boot process on node-2: 'Device
> > 51714 (vbd) could not be connected losetup /dev/loop  failed'
> > I was not able to find out what is going on there or to fix this (there
> > are enough free loop devices).
> >
> > Accordingly, I changed the cfg file to:
> >
> > disk = ['tap:aio:/xen/XenGuest1.img,xvda1,w', 
> > 'tap:aio:/xen/XenGuest1.swap,xvda2,w']
> >
> > But now, I cannot boot it locally and also not remotley. The boot
> > process hangs with the Error:
> >
> > XENBUS: Waiting for devices to initialise: 295s...
> >
> > Can anyone please give me advice?
> > Thank you!!!
> Try adding the following to /etc/modprobe.conf :
>
> options loop max_loop=256

Unfortunately, this is not working. I increased the number of loop 
devices, I get the same error on node-2:
toor@node-2:/xen$ sudo mount 192.168.0.2:/xen /xen
toor@node-2:/$ cd /xen
toor@node-2:/xen$ ls
disk.img  my.lenny.cfg  swap.img
toor@node-2:/xen$ sudo xm create my.lenny.cfg -c
Using config file "./my.lenny.cfg".
toor@node-2:/xen$ Error: Device 51714 (vbd) could not be connected. 
losetup /dev/loop0 /xen/disk.img failed

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Se


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