[Openstack] Ubuntu run instance error + xen

Thomas Goirand thomas at goirand.fr
Sat Aug 20 13:52:35 UTC 2011


On 08/20/2011 01:52 AM, Joshua Harlow wrote:
> For my nova/virt/libvirt.xml.template on my compute node.
> 
> The following is being done.
> 
>   #if $type == 'xen'
>         #set $disk_prefix = 'sd'
>         #set $disk_bus = 'scsi'
>             <type>linux</type>
>             <root>/dev/xvda</root>
> 
> Should that be /dev/sda for the /root node here?

*NO* ! There's never a reason to use sda instead of xvda (unless you are
running an antediluvian kernel for your domU). This isn't your issue.
Please read the Debian release notes about Xen that I wrote.

Thomas




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