From: Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com>
To: "Jonathan M. McCune" <jonmccune@cmu.edu>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: Error: Device 768 (vbd) could not be connected. Backend device not found.
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:52:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060419145215.GQ16776@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44464534.1090009@cmu.edu>
* Jonathan M. McCune <jonmccune@cmu.edu> [2006-04-19 09:14]:
> Hello,
>
> I am getting this error when I try to start an HVM guest on an AMD
> Sahara system. The xen-unstable-hvm.hg revision 8724 works fine. I
> tried to upgrade to xen-unstable.hg revision 9668. I got 9668 to boot
> using 'yaird' to build the initrd for the -xen kernel. I can
> successfully start a paravirtualized guest, but I am now having trouble
> starting an HVM guest. The error message is:
>
> Error: Device 768 (vbd) could not be connected. Backend device not found.
<snip>
> disk = [ 'file:/sarge/disk.img,ioemu:hda,w' ]
I got this when the loop driver (which is a module in -xen kernel config
is used) wasn't loaded. Try modprobe loop, and re-run your create
command.
--
Ryan Harper
Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center
IBM Corp., Austin, Tx
(512) 838-9253 T/L: 678-9253
ryanh@us.ibm.com
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2006-04-19 14:12 Error: Device 768 (vbd) could not be connected. Backend device not found Jonathan M. McCune
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