From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Alex Braunegg" Subject: Re: [BUG] libxl: error: libxl_device.c:301:libxl__device_disk_set_backend: no suitable backend for disk Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 06:19:15 +1100 Message-ID: <56b3a437.65a3420a.7c73.7ed0@mx.google.com> References: <56b2930f.9048620a.d7595.ffffa86b@mx.google.com> <1454585158.25207.177.camel@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1454585158.25207.177.camel@citrix.com> Content-Language: en-au List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: 'Ian Campbell' , xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Hi Ian, As per http://xenbits.xen.org/docs/4.6-testing/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt the disk specification conforms to: disk = [ '/dev/vg/guest-volume,,hda', '/root/image.iso,,hdc,cdrom' ] Is there any additional information you need to replicate this issue? Best regards, Alex -----Original Message----- From: Ian Campbell [mailto:ian.campbell@citrix.com] Sent: Thursday, 4 February 2016 10:26 PM To: Alex Braunegg; xen-devel@lists.xen.org Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [BUG] libxl: error: libxl_device.c:301:libxl__device_disk_set_backend: no suitable backend for disk On Thu, 2016-02-04 at 10:53 +1100, Alex Braunegg wrote: > > There was a thread on this in 2013 > (http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-03/msg00806.html) however > I have looked at the disk configuration, and there is no phy: / raw: / file: > prefix to the disk specification. Not sure what is going on but I just wanted to mention that phy: etc prefixes are considered legacy. See http://xenbits.xen.org/docs/4.6-testing /misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt for the actual syntax and how phy: is mapped. Ian.