problem with xen 3.2 in hardy

[Markus Schönhaber]

Tomoki Taniguchi wrote:

> i have found that hardy with xen3.2 has some real problems still.
> for one i can't seem to get a domU to boot if the disk is a loopback
> file.  i can at least get an lvm domU to start the boot process.
> 
> i get this error on both amd64 and i386 hardy servers.
> 
> Error: Device 51713 (vbd) could not be connected. losetup /dev/loop1
> /xen/local/domains/test-hardy/swap.img failed

Try to use the the tap:aio driver if do not do so already, i. e. if you
use something like
disk = [ 'file:/some/path/some/file.img,...' ]
in your DomU's config, change this to
disk = [ 'tap:aio:/some/path/some/file.img,...' ]

Regards
  mks