From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sanjay Kumar Subject: problem creating a new domain Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 19:09:03 -0400 Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <4172FB8F.7070602@cc.gatech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Hi Folks, I am using xen1.2. I create the disk image as described in the Xen2.0 user manual chapter 5. #dd if=/dev/zero of=vm1disk bs=1k seek=6144k count=1 #losetup /dev/loop1 vm1disk #mkfs -t ext3 /dev/loop1 #mount /dev/loop1 /mnt #cp -ax // /mnt/ /* I do this instead of copying the whole / directory because I don't want some of the directories in Dom 1 */ I modify /mnt/etc/fstab to put /dev/sda1 to root # umount /dev/loop1 then I put this line in /etc/xc/defaults (I used a copy of it called dom1) vbd_list = [ ('phy:loop1','sda1','w' ) ] After this I try to create the dom1 by saying but I get an error. #xc_dom_create.py -D vmid=1 -f dom1 Parsing config file 'dom1' VM image : "/boot/xenolinux.gz" VM ramdisk : "" VM memory (MB) : "64" VM IP address(es) : "130.207.98.36; 169.254.1.1" VM block device(s) : "phy:loop1,sda1,w" VM cmdline : "ip=130.207.98.36:169.254.1.0:130.207.98.1:255.255.255.0::eth0:off root=/dev/sda1 ro 4 VMID=1 usr=/dev/sda6" Error looking up phy:loop1 Can someone please help me with this error? Thanks, Sanjay ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl