From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Vrable Subject: Re: Cannot create domU Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:00:06 -0700 Message-ID: <20050923180006.GA25732@vrable.net> References: <5d7aca9505092307156e0c7f00@mail.gmail.com> <20050923173759.GA25613@vrable.net> <20050923174311.GA25662@vrable.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050923174311.GA25662@vrable.net> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com Cc: NAHieu List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:43:11AM -0700, Michael Vrable wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:37:59AM -0700, Michael Vrable wrote: > > Jon Mason made a post yesterday where he tracked the problem down (for > > him) to the changeset "Move block device bind/unbind into hotplug > > scripts" (e9d01c5dc7b4d6b7cda9ade0d137ddb89bb204cc). I was running into > > the same problem, and so based on his detective work tried installing > > hotplug (actually hotplug and udev, but the first might be enough) in > > domain-0. Domain creation now works for me. > > > > Check to see if you have hotplug installed in your domain-0, and if not, > > whether installing it makes a difference. > > Actually, more testing shows that for me (minimal Debian sarge > installation), udev does seems to be needed as well, hotplug alone > doesn't work. Okay, hotplug _does_ work, if I reboot before testing. (Apparently, having udev installed switches /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug to point to /sbin/udevsend, but after a reboot hotplug by itself works.) --Michael Vrable