Re: [Xen-users] Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Writing a tool for Shared Persistent Windows Boot Image

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 13:07 -0600, Jim Burnes wrote:
> Speaking of the XenSource 3.1.0 RPMs, I'd like to make a suggestion.
> When you build the xen-kernel for those 3.1.0 RPMs, can you make sure
> that the loop device is built as a module?  By default the loop device
> is limited to 8 instances and when you build it into the kernel it
> makes it very difficult to change max_loop. 
> 
> I tried adding it as a xen-kernel boot option in grub.conf, but as far
> as I can tell it's ignored when the loop device is compiled in the
> kernel.

When a module is builtin you often need to prefix the option on the
kernel command line with the module name. So adding loop.max_loop=<N>
may work.

Ian.




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