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I am using the srpm from http://xenbits.xensource.com/kernels/rhel3x/kernel-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL.xs0.3.5. 15.src.rpm (I get the same issue using the binary RPM) the dom0 is running 3.0.3_0 Upon booting the DomU, (the DomU has been passed phy:/dev/sda6, which has been partitioned using qemu) I get the following ioctl errors. ioctl 0000126c not supported by XL blkif ioctl 0000126c not supported

Hi List, slightly OT but i have Xen and Windows running (xen 3.2.0, hvm, win 2k3) on top of a lvm volume. Now i want to delete such a volume but i got the message: $ lvremove /dev/Xen0/Win2kServer Can''t remove open logical volume "Win2kServer" The volume is not in use by any VM, but there is a partition table on it with 8Megs of free space and a ntfs partition. I also got 2

Hello, here is the second release of kpartx : the shameless perversion of util-linux's partx. As before it : 1) compiles against klibc 2) read partitions table like partx 3) drives the device mapper to present the partitions bdevs Find it at http://dsit.free.fr/kpartx-0.0.2.tar.bz2 This release adds a interesting functionality : it ca...

...partition and make a new, bigger one) Now's when the problems happened. After writing the partition table I got the usual "Busy" error. But I needed to do this without downtime. So, what did I try to get the kernel acknowledge the partition size change: * hdparm -z /dev/sdb * partx -a -v /dev/sdb * partprobe -s * echo "1" > /sys/block/sdb/device/rescan And while dmesg reported that it recognized the partition change, LVM did still not see it. So eventually, I was still forced to reboot, after which everything (pvresize, lvresize, resize2fs) worked fine. En...

Maybe a little off-topic - but I hope not too much. Looking for some insight on setting up Dovecot under a virtual server. In particular, I use VirtualBox - and at the moment, Ubuntu Linux. Initial questions on configuration: Caching. It seems to me - and I'm probably wrong - that running a Linux in a VM on a Linux host, there would be a duplication of caching. That is, the host