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From: Stefan de Konink <skinkie@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: Almost working iSCSI booting, need advice
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:41:16 +0200
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jpranevich@kniggit.net schreef:
> My big issue involves the creation of the dummy device. It's a
> chicken and egg problem with create_vbd() that I'm not sure how to
> get around. (The hotplug scripts have to run to get the device, but
> need the device to run the hotplug script.) I may be able to fix that
> by simply writing the correct information to the xenstore in the
> right places after I learn them, but I don't know what places need
> updating for the different parts of Xen. (I also haven't tested this
> with Xen-API or migrations, so I may discover more problems if I'm
> not structuring this in the right way.)


Can you show me your code of create_vbd? Because in my code I never
specify any device name. And if you look at file:/// syntax, do you ever 
specify /dev/loop0 as filename?


Stefan