Fedora xen - May 2006 - VBS running out of loopbacks

Through some searching it appears that we are limited to 8 loopbacks
/dev/loop[0-7] on a default FC5 install.  This was noted when we started
getting no backend can be found errors when trying to load a 9th VBS based
guest.

Is adding a basic option to /etc/modprobe.conf and rebooting the system the
safest way to unload everything and get the loop module reloaded to support
additional loopback devices?

Or should we explore additional solutions?

Right now the server''s drive is one logical group with one logical
volume
taking up 100% of the disk.  I do not want to engage any file system
resizing and lvm resizing as this is a production environment.

Thoughts on this are appreciated.

Jon Stone wrote:
> Through some searching it appears that we are limited to 8 loopbacks 
> /dev/loop[0-7] on a default FC5 install.  This was noted when we 
> started getting no backend can be found errors when trying to load a 
> 9th VBS based guest.
>
> Is adding a basic option to /etc/modprobe.conf and rebooting the 
> system the safest way to unload everything and get the loop module 
> reloaded to support additional loopback devices?
>
adding the max_loop option to /etc/modprobe.conf works, but you don''t 
need to restart the system, you can just remove the module and reload it 
after making the change. but you won''t be able to remove the module 
whilst it''s in use...

Regards,
David