From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Stodden Subject: Re: xen 4.1.1 + 3.0.0-rc5 dom0 + blktap2 Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:32:16 -0700 Message-ID: <1309314736.10719.1.camel@agari.van.xensource.com> References: <4E0A8907.6010300@swisscenter.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4E0A8907.6010300@swisscenter.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien?= Riccio Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 22:08 -0400, Sébastien Riccio wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently trying xen 4.1.1 with the 3.0.0-rc5 (heard that it now > contains the xen code to run as front or back xen domain). > > Everything seems to run fine, except that I am trying since a few hours > to mount a .vhd file in the dom0. > > What I tried so far: > > to create a blank vhd file (this is working): > host# vhd-util create -n /storage/test.vhd -s 20G > > Then i try to mount the file in dom0 (as stated in a blktap2 README file) > host# tapdisk2 -n vhc:/storage/test.vhd tap-ctl create -n vhd:/storage/test.vhd # :) As a rule of thumb, there's no excuse to call tapdisk2 on the command line. Should actually rather have gone into libexec. Daniel > it fails, returning: > tapdisk2: invalid option -- 'n' > usage: tapdisk2 <-u uuid> <-c control socket> > > Then i've tried: > host# tap-ctl list > > It returns: > blktap kernel module not installed > > Then tried too: > host# xl block-attach 0 tap:vhd:/storage/test.vhd xvda w 0 > > It does not complain but nothing happens. > > Am I getting something wrong about how to do it ? Does the 3.0.0-rc5 > kernel is missing something ? > (look like there is no blktap module in the kernel tree, but blkback > that I enabled, don't know if it's the same) > > I have no more ideas about what to try next. Any clue ? > > Thanks a lot for your help! > > Kind regards, > Sébastien > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel