[one-users] Strange behaviour of DEFAULT_DEVICE_PREFIX and TARGET when using Xen in HVM mode

[Tino Vazquez]

Hi Maxence,

Yes, this is a problem also for KVM. There is a ticket [1] to fix the
documentation accordingly, thanks for the feedback.

Regards,

-Tino

[1] http://dev.opennebula.org/issues/808

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On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Maxence Dunnewind
<maxence.dunnewind at inria.fr> wrote:
> hi,
>
>> You are right, TARGET cannot be set in the image template, but you can
>> set the DEV_PREFIX, that should be enough to achieve a working
>> deployment file.
>>
>
> I investigate more on the subject, finally the conclusion is that Xen in HVM
> mode can't handle more than 4 devices, that's why it worked with xvdc or xvdd.
> I tried to upgrade to Xen4 on squeeze to try with devops modules, but because of
> some stupid packaging decision, I can't make it work as expected.
> The last decision has been to move to paravirt on Xen3/lenny, which works
> correctly, I don't have this issue anymore.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Maxence
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