Re: [Xen-users] Problems creating additional domains ...

Ernst Bachmann
Tue, 05 Jul 2005 13:06:03 -0000

On Tuesday 05 July 2005 15:02, Jürgen Wohltran wrote:
> invader:/etc/xen# xm create -c xmdebian1
> Using config file "xmdebian1".
> Error: Error creating domain: vbd: Segment phy:hda5 is in writable use

[snip, fstab:]

> /dev/hda5 on /mnt/vserver1 type ext3 (rw)

the entire blockdevice hda5 is exported to your xenU guest, so to prevent
corruption from mounting it twice, it needs exclusive access to that
blockdevice before starting the xenU kernel.

just "umount /mnt/vserver1" and xm create again.

HTH
/Ernst