Pkg xen devel - Oct 2008 - Bug#503044: xen-utils-common: should make the loopback device default to supporting more nodes

Package: xen-utils-common
Version: 3.2.0-2
Severity: normal

When file: sources are used for Xen block devices the Xen system will
use a loopback device for each one.  It's quite common for DomUs to be
configured with two block devices (one for storage and one for swap) and
not uncommon to have a block device for each filesystem (which makes it
easier to grow filesystems).

Therefore the default of 8 loopback devices will allow an absolute
maximum of 8 DomUs with file: block devices, 4 DomUs that have separate
block devices for swap and storage, and 2 or less if each DomU has more
devices.

It seems reasonable to create a file /etc/modprobe.d/xen that contains
the following line to alleviate this:
options loop max_loop=32

Your message dated Sun, 06 May 2012 18:39:34 +0000
with message-id <E1SR6Mo-00024d-SH at franck.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#503044: fixed in xen 4.1.2-6
has caused the Debian Bug report #503044,
regarding xen-utils-common: should make the loopback device default to
supporting more nodes
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