Hi,

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:50 PM, snowcrash+openfiler
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi,
>
>  i've installed OpenFiler 2.2 in a Xen DomU.
>

What version of Xen?

I think I have seen this problem (or a similar one) before, but it was
a long time ago. I think it had something to do with xvd* disks.

Cheers,
Todd

>  i dd'd the OF appliance DL image (@ rpath) to a Dom0-managed LV, and
>  created a second LV for storage. so i have,
>
>         lvs | egrep "openfiler|share"
>           openfiler   vg1 -wi-ao   1.56G
>           share       vg1 -wi-ao  20.00G
>
>  the 'share' LV was created as,
>
>         lvcreate --name share --size 20G /dev/vg1
>         mkfs -t ext3 /dev/vg1/share
>
>  and, reading here,
>
>         https://project.openfiler.com/tracker/ticket/558
>
>  i also cleared its partition table,
>
>         dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/vg1/share bs=512 count=1
>
>  i pass the two physical devices to the DomU via it's .cfg,
>
>         ...
>         disk = [ 'phy:/dev/vg1/openfiler,xvda1,w', 
> 'phy:/dev/vg1/share,xvdb,w']
>         ...
>
>  on,
>
>         xm create openfiler.cfg
>
>  the instance boots fine.
>
>  @ nav to,
>
>         http://openfiler.mydomain.com:446/admin/volumes_physical.html
>
>  i see,
>
>         /dev/xvda       IDE             1.56 GB         msdos   1 (view)
>         /dev/xvdb       IDE             19.99 GB        loop    1 (view)
>
>  but when i attempt to edit/partition the second drive, 2 nav to:
>
>         
> http://openfiler.mydomain.com:446/admin/volumes_editpartitions.html?dev=%2Fdev%2Fxvdb
>
>         /dev/xvdb1      Unknown Partition Type (0x0)    1       1       2611  
>   20971520        20.00
>  GB      Primary         -
>
>  with *NO* option to edit, create, etc.
>
>  any hints as to how I can actually USE the LV i created in Dom0 in the OF 
> DomU?
>
>  thanks!
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