Re: Getting xen to recognise large disks

[Robin Bowes <robin-lists@robinbowes.com>]

Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 21/11/06 11:21, "Robin Bowes" <robin-lists@robinbowes.com> wrote:
> 
>> Keir Fraser wrote:
>>> On 21/11/06 2:13 am, "Robin Bowes" <robin-lists@robinbowes.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'll make a patch today.
>>>
>> Thanks Keir, looking forward to testing it.
> 
> If you don't mind using the xen-unstable source repository, it's changeset
> 12496:0c0ef61de06b. It probably hasn't reached the public repository just
> yet (should very shortly though).

Erm, I'm hoping for a modified RPM :)

Is this a kernel-level change, i.e. will I need to rebuild and install a
new kernel? Or is it just the userland tools that have changed?

For example, on my Dom0 host I have the following RPMs installed with
"xen" in their name:

# rpm -qa | grep xen
kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
xen-3.0.3-0.1.rc3bigdisk
kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6
xen-libs-3.0.3-0.1.rc3bigdisk

(The packages suffixed "bigdisk" are the result of my own attempt to
patch for this problem)

On the guests, I just have the kernel.

So, I'm rather suspecting that I'll need to build a new kernel and
update both the host and the guests?

R.