From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ewan Mellor Subject: Re: xen_blk timeout connecting to device Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 10:57:44 +0100 Message-ID: <20051005095744.GA21042@uk.xensource.com> References: <20051005063852.GD10936@cc.gatech.edu> <20051005090624.GD31971@uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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 List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 11:34:28AM +0200, Jacob Gorm Hansen wrote: > On 10/5/05, Ewan Mellor wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 02:38:52AM -0400, Himanshu Raj wrote: > > > > > domU won't start. Attached is the log. Worth noticing is the xen_blk timeout > > > connecting to the device. > > > > Device initialisation now requires hotplug / udev. Please check that you have > > hotplug and udev installed (apt-get install hotplug udev on Debian, YMMV). > > Is this in both dom0 and domU? And is it necessary when using physical > devices rather than file-backed ones? We use them in dom0. However, I believe you are trying to bring up devices without using Xend, so how you achieve that is up to you. I don't believe that hotplug is _required_ for bare Xen. Ewan.