[one-users] unable to attach disks to VMs: 'driver' expects a driver name and other error messages

Lars Buitinck L.J.Buitinck at uva.nl
Mon Jun 17 03:08:38 PDT 2013


2013/6/17 Jaime Melis <jmelis at opennebula.org>:
>> Finally, one VM actually seems to successfully get its image attached,
>> but then I don't see the image inside the Ubuntu guest, not even after
>> I modprobe pci_hotplug and acpiphp, detach it, and attach it again.
>
> Well, that depends on the kernel version and many other factors. It's up to
> the guest system to detect the new drive. Can you see it if you reboot the
> VM?

Yes, rebooting solves the problem but moves the disks from /dev/vda to
/dev/vdb. The workaround is to ditch Ubuntu Server and run CentOS,
which has far fewer issues anyway :)

-- 
Lars Buitinck
Scientific programmer, ILPS
University of Amsterdam



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