Hello Xen-Users, I am trying to migrate a project over to VHD files in Xen4/blktap2 to take advantage of the copy-on-write features. Right now I am experimenting with the capabilities of VHD files. After creating the file, however, I cannot find a way to install an operating system onto it. I''ve tried mounting it using the instructions in the blktap2 README http://lxr.xensource.com/lxr/source/tools/blktap2/README but trying to run debootstrap on the path returned by tapdisk2 gives confusing errors. Here''s an example: deckard:~# vhd-util create -n testVHDImage -s 1024 deckard:~# ls -lart testVHDImage -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5120 2010-12-04 22:42 testVHDImage deckard:~# tapdisk2 -n vhd:/root/testVHDImage /dev/xen/blktap-2/tapdev0 deckard:~# debootstrap lenny /dev/xen/blktap-2/tapdev0 mkdir: cannot create directory `/dev/xen/blktap-2/tapdev0'': File exists mknod: `/dev/xen/blktap-2/tapdev0/test-dev-null'': Not a directory E: Cannot install into target ''/dev/xen/blktap-2/tapdev0'' mounted with noexec or nodev deckard:~# Does anybody have any experience creating VHD disk images, or any guidance in this particular matter? Any help would be sincerely appreciated. -- Garrett Robinson (484) 802-3882 Oberlin College ''11 _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users