Re: Xen & Automated Disk Management for Domains

[" Björn Sessler " <bjoern.sessler@web.de>]

hi,

i tried lvm (vers. 1) with xenU 2.4. i created one group on a raid0-device /dev/md/0 (devfs with gentoo) with several lv's for swap and root for virtual hosts. on xen0 i can mount and use these devices without any problem, one of these device is currently used as swap for xen0. 

i tried to give access with this xmdefaults configuration
(not mounted in vm as root like the name says, only access for later test-mount):

disk = [ 'phy:hdb5,hdb5,w' , 'phy:hda6,hda6,w' , 'phy:/dev/vg0/rootvm101,hdx1,w' ]
before:
disk = [ 'phy:hdb5,hdb5,w' , 'phy:hda6,hda6,w' ]

when trying to start the vm, this error occurs (i modified xmdefaults to accept vmid=vm101 like the name of the vm):

root@vm0 vm # xm create -c vmid=vm101
Using config file /etc/xen/xmdefaults
Error: Error creating domain: [Failure instance: Traceback: xen.xend.XendError.VmError, vbd: Segments not found: uname=phy:/dev/vg0/rootvm101

the xend-log says following while creation:

[2004-08-07 12:14:15 xend] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:692) init_domain> Created domain=14 name=vm101 memory=61
[2004-08-07 12:14:15 xend] INFO (console:93) Created console id=14 domain=14 port=9614
[2004-08-07 12:14:15 xend] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1046) Creating vbd dom=14 uname=phy:hdb5 dev=hdb5
[2004-08-07 12:14:15 xend] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1046) Creating vbd dom=14 uname=phy:hda6 dev=hda6
[2004-08-07 12:14:15 xend] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1046) Creating vbd dom=14 uname=phy:/dev/vg0/rootvm101 dev=hdx1
[2004-08-07 12:14:15 xend] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:659) Destroying vbds for domain 14
[2004-08-07 12:14:15 xend] DEBUG (blkif:339) Destroying blkif domain=14
[2004-08-07 12:14:15 xend] DEBUG (blkif:415) >BlkifController>send_be_disconnect> dom=14
[2004-08-07 12:14:15 xend] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:619) Closing channel to domain 14
[2004-08-07 12:14:15 xend] DEBUG (blkif:422) >BlkifController>send_be_destroy> dom=14


i also noticed that changing configuration to 
disk = [ 'phy:hdb5,hdxSWAP,w' , 'phy:hda6,hdxUSR,w' ]
produces also an error like:
Using config file /etc/xen/xmdefaults
Error: Error creating domain: [Failure instance: Traceback: <type 'tuple'>, (<twisted.python.failure.Failure exceptions.TypeError>, 1)

output in xend-log is the same.

any hints for this? or is lvm 1 generally not supported which means i have to patch?

thanks & best regards,
bjoern
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