[Xen-users] Xen guest swap use

[Arijit Ganguly <aganguly@xxxxxxxxx>]

Since Xen has trouble identifying all partitions on a virtual disk,
what does it do about the swap partition (if present on the virtual
disk). Does that need to be specified explicitly in the 
configuration option?

Arijit

On 5/26/05, Paul Jakma <paul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 26 May 2005, Arijit Ganguly wrote:

> Is it possible for Xen itself to detect the preexisting partitions
> (which we have created from domain 0) on the device we are trying
> to connect. Something like:
>
> [phy:/dev/sda,/dev/hda, 'w'], just mapping some device to a virtual
> physical device on guest. The ghuest OS be able to detect the
> partitions drawn on /dev/sda from domain 0 I tried but does't seem
> to work.

http://bugzilla.xensource.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43

> a. The device would appear as /dev/hda0 and not as /dev/hda.
> b. fdisk even shows the partitions on the /dev/hda0, but /dev file system
> doesn't have any corresponding devices.

It does seem to find the first partition, just doesnt scan for any
others.

I'd like to be able to assign whole disks to domU's and have domU's
handle partitioning particularly so that Linux extX fs labels aren't
visible to the dom0. And to simplify management of disks.

regards,
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