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Re: Ubuntu run instance error + xen

 

There was an issue on one version of ubuntu (I think it was natty?), where xen was using /dev/sd* instead of /dev/xd*.  I remember discussion on the mailing list or a bug about having to have a specific workaround.

On Aug 19, 2011, at 1:42 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote:

> On 08/19/2011 01:31 PM, Isaku Yamahata wrote:
>> It looks you specified "root=/dev/xvda", but the disk that is
>> instantiated is /dev/sda.
>> But I didn't see why it happened. Did you customized the template
>> for libvirt, libvirt.xml.template?
> 
> This seems wrong then, because under Xen, you should use xvda, not sda
> anymore.
> 
> Thomas
> 
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