Re: virtio disk device file "/dev/hast/shared" does not exist. Creating it ...
On 08/01/15 03:23, Neel Natu wrote: Hi Nikos, On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 6:53 AM, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Hi, While trying to use a HAST device as my storage I got this message. Booting... virtio disk device file "/dev/hast/shared" does not exist. Creating it ... GDB: no debug ports present KDB: debugger backends: ddb KDB: current backend: ddb Copyright (c) 1992-2015 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 Does anybody know what "creating it" mean in this regard? I assume you are using vmrun.sh to start the virtual machine. If the backing file for the virtio disk device does not exist then the script will create it before launching the virtual machine. See 'make_and_check_diskdev()' function in vmrun.sh. Oh thanks, didn't notice it was the script! ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: virtio disk device file "/dev/hast/shared" does not exist. Creating it ...
Hi Nikos, On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 6:53 AM, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > Hi, > > While trying to use a HAST device as my storage I got this message. > >> Booting... >> virtio disk device file "/dev/hast/shared" does not exist. >> Creating it ... >> GDB: no debug ports present >> KDB: debugger backends: ddb >> KDB: current backend: ddb >> Copyright (c) 1992-2015 The FreeBSD Project. >> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 > > > Does anybody know what "creating it" mean in this regard? > I assume you are using vmrun.sh to start the virtual machine. If the backing file for the virtio disk device does not exist then the script will create it before launching the virtual machine. See 'make_and_check_diskdev()' function in vmrun.sh. best Neel > Thank in advance, > Nikos > > ___ > freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
