[Fedora-xen] xm create -c recovery fails

[John Summerfield]

Dustin Henning wrote:
> 	I had a similar problem, and my suggestion is what solved it, but that was with moonshine, and according to the documentation, the /dev/ shouldn't need to be specified.  I didn't look unto ioemu, as I've never used it and assumed it had to do with using a different method to emulate (input output emulation vs block device emulation) since either method would be not paravirtualised by virtue of the vm being and hvm.  However, all of that (regarding ioemu) is highly presumptious.  I seem to recall something about not being able to have four devices for some reason as well, though, so perhaps you should do some searching on that premise or try calling it hdc since you aren't using the cdrom at the same time.  I'm not a major linux player or anything, so I can't make heads or tails of the more detailed output you provided.  That said, my suggestions are shots in the dark.  Also, as an aside, I'm assuming -c works for you on other HVM configs, as the last time I tried it with a
n 
>  HVM (probably FC6), I don't think it did.  Based on the error, though, I don't think the -c is your problem.  If it is, and assuming that you aren't putting the config file in an auto-start (at boot) location, the hvm config file can have a setting to start up a vnc window.
> 	Dustin
>

I narrowed it down to the disk configuration before I posted. I've seen 
a limit of four drives mentioned; it seems broken to me any I'm likely 
to test it (at one time I had three drives on USB interfaces attached to 
my laptop while I copied back and forth.)


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