tag 649513 + upstream
retitle 649513 xen-create-image does not check if parameter to device options
are really devices
kthxbye
Hi,
Moonwalker wrote:
> Package: xen-tools
> Version: 4.2.1-1
>
> xen-create-image --image-dev=/opt/root.img --swap-dev=/opt/swap.img ...
> creates a configuration file with the following disk options
> #
> # Physical volumes
> #
> root = '/dev/xvda2 ro'
> disk = [
> 'phy:/opt/root.img,xvda2,w',
> 'phy:/opt/swap.img,xvda1,w',
> ]
> instead of "file" type partitions
Well, it does exactly what the docs say:
--image-dev=/path/to/device
Specify a physical/logical volume for the disk image.
--swap-dev=/path/to/device
Specify a physical/logical volume for swap usage.
It expects a device and not a file as parameter and hence writes a
config for a device.
The current way to use file based images is to use --dir. The files
will be named automatically based on the hostname.
I wonder what the ... options have been in the example. I suspect a
--dir in there.
I must admit that it though would be more helpful to the user if
xen-create-image would check if the given paths are really devices or
not and act accordingly (either by printing out a warning or, probably
better, to use files if the given path is no device or does not exist
(and --lvm is not given).
Regards, Axel
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