[CentOS-virt] Having trouble starting more than 8 Xen guests

[Ian Forde]

On Sep 18, 2011, at 9:13, "Scot P. Floess" <sfloess at nc.rr.com> wrote:

> I did some google'ing and from what I cn tell that error arises due to the 
> lack of loop back devices (there being 8 by default)...
> 
> I've tried both using MAKEDEV (in my /etc/rc.local) to create a number of 
> loop back devices and put max_loops in my grub,.conf file.  For example 
> here is what I have in grub.conf now:
> 
> title CentOS (2.6.18-274.3.1.el5.centos.plusxen)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-274.3.1.el5.centos.plus
>         module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-274.3.1.el5.centos.plusxen ro root=LABEL=/ 
> max_loop=64
>         module /initrd-2.6.18-274.3.1.el5.centos.plusxen.img
> 
> 
> Due to wrapping, max_loop is actually on the module /vmlinuz- line...
> 
> I also tried to put max_loop on the kernel line as well...
> 
> As I mentioned above, I also created the loop back devices from 
> /etc/rc.local like so:
> 
> /sbin/MAKEDEV -d /dev -m 64 loop
> 
> And, once I can log in to the machine, I do see everything in /dev (for 
> example /dev/loop0 to /dev/loop64)
> 
> Has anyone else had this problem?  If so, how did you resolve it????
> 

Actually, you have max_loops=64 in the wrong file.  You want it in /etc/modprobe.conf as thus:

options loop max_loop=64

Once that is in, a reboot (after shutting down the running VMs) is the quickest way to activate it.  Take the makedev and grub stuff out...

  -I