[Fedora-xen] RE: Urgent Help Required: FC10 as DomU on FC8 as Dom0

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 02:08:15PM +0200, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 09:46:21PM +0000, MOHAMMAD MATEEN ASLAM wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > i think it doesn't matter what xenserver block devices is for Guest OS.
> 
> IIRC Fedora installer expects to find and use xvd* devices only. 

Support for hijacking SCSI/IDE device names was ripped out of the
Xen blkfront when it was merged in upstream Linux. Since Fedora 10
guest is based on upstream, you need to use xvda not sda, regardless
of installer. 

We did warn people this would likely happen when upstream got hold
of the code...

Daniel
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