[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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