[Fedora-xen] device names in DomU
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Wed May 31 16:21:03 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 19:28 +0200, Rainer Fuegenstein wrote:
> I like to use harddisk device names other than hdx/sdx in DomU (because
> I'm about to migrate a legacy system (which uses /dev/mdX devices) into
> a xen DomU and I like to make sure that one day I won't mistake DomU's
> /dev/hda1 with /dev/hda1 in Dom0 when running a mkfs ...)
>
> if I specify
>
> disk = ['file:/virtual/guest-root.img,sda1,w']
>
> in DomU's cfg file, it works. but if I specify
>
> disk = ['file:/virtual/guest-root.img,vxd1,w']
You want xvda, etc.
Jeremy
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