On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:44:28AM +0100, J. Landamore wrote: > You're limited to four IDE drives max (hda-hdd) on HVM domU. > Additional drives can be added as xvda and so on, but to access them > you need PV drivers on domU. Linux (at least RHEL/Centos) has one, > Windows has one (3rd party driver), but I'm not sure about Solaris 10.
This is generally correct. Unfortunately, the Solaris 10 PV drivers are not smart enough to understand 'xvde' drives: they only deal with the standard IDE ones. Thus, you have a maximum of four. I just tried adding xvde at runtime, and the domU panicked. I'll be filing a bug soon. > I'm using 10u7) has PV drivers in the distro for disk and net. My > understanding was that you still had to install as a HVM but the PV > drivers were automagically used. This is borne out, at least for the net, > as the interface appears as xnf0. This is correct. regards john _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
