[xen-tools] Re: feature requests

[Steve Kemp]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 10:24:56AM -0500, elw at stderr.org wrote:

> Point taken, I think.  Maybe just emit a warning instead?  That will be 
> enough to clue in most of the folks who'd be interested in Xen, anyway.

  I'll add a warning.

> I got a root filesystem, but no swap device.  Are you using LVM for swap 
> space, too?

  A bug in 2.0, fixed in the 2.1 release, or via this patch:

  http://www.cvsrepository.org/cgi-bin/trac/xen-tools/chngview?cn=550

> oh ho ho - here's a piece of it.  I never ran makedev generic - I guess I 
> assumed that the image creation scripts were going to do that for me.  So 
> when i got /dev/sda1 mounted as root, but no swap device, I presumed a 
> bug.  I got *some* devices without running makedev generic, just not 
> enough of them.  :)

  It should be run automatically, along with all the hook scripts
 from /usr/lib/xen-tools/sarge.d/

  If you think they're not being executed properly mail me the output
 of :

    xen-create-image --hostname=blah ..... ... --verbose

Steve
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