XEN3 DOMU troubles

On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 11:52:03PM -0500, Mike Sun wrote:
> I've also noticed that in my dmesg output, these lines
appear when I
> and create a guest domain and it fails:
> 
> xvif3.0: Ethernet address 00:16:3e:01:00:11
> vnd0: dos partition I/O error
> xbd backend: attach device vnd0d (size 4194306) for
domain 3
> 
> Anybody know what that "dos partition I/O
error" is?

It's because the kernel tries to read a i386-style DOS
partitition table,
and a disklabel and can't find them on a virgin disklabel.
This should not
be an issue. Hum, this message could also be because the
file is sparse;
make sure your file doesn't have holes (if you created it
with dd,
it should not be the case).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyerantioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la
difference
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