[xen-tools] Re: feature requests

[Steve Kemp]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 10:07:01AM -0500, elw at stderr.org wrote:

> 1) it'd be great if xen-create-image checked to make sure that dom0 has
>    the loopback module loaded.  i'm embarassed to say that i didn't, and
>    didn't realize it until things blew up ;)

  I'm not sure if this is a good idea or not, since the images might
 be built on a host which isn't running Xen.  Still I'll think about
 it some more later.

  (Of course this could only apply if not using LVM partitions.)

> 2) when building a sarge guest, we need some more device nodes.
>    /dev/sda2 didn't get created in my fresh guest, so it couldn't swapon.
>    `MAKEDEV sd` fixed it, of course, but doing it pseudo-automagically
>    would be very nice.  it should be possible to parse this stuff out of
>    the domU config file and take care of the common cases without hassling
>    the user.

  Strange I've not see this before.  Usually I just use "makedev
 generic" and everything is created as expected.

  I've updated CVS to do this too, if you would like to test it
 and let me know how it goes that would be appreciated:

    http://www.cvsrepository.org/cgi-bin/trac/xen-tools/chngview?cn=585

> Hope these are useful suggestions / quasi-bug-reports.

  Definitely!

Steve
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