[Netkit.users] How do I create a disk image to use with netkit?
Massimo Rimondini
rimondin at dia.uniroma3.it
Mon Sep 7 17:04:35 CEST 2009
Dear Luca,
in the second case, try passing "--append=root=98:1" as option to vstart.
For a step-by-step resize procedure, I suggest you have a look at this
post, if you haven't already:
http://list.dia.uniroma3.it/pipermail/netkit.users/2007-January/000242.html.
Regards,
Massimo.
Luca Dionisi wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I need to instantiate a vm in netkit with more space on disk. The
> default has 1 GB.
> How do I create a disk image to use with netkit?
> The automated procedure (make -f Makefile.devel) is not working for me.
>
> I'd be really ok with a bigger disk with the same content of my
> current one. So I tried and created from scratch (dd) a disk image,
> created a partition, an ext3 fs on it, mounted it, and I copied the
> content of the original image.
> But when I launch vstart I got some strange behaviour.
>
> When I try:
> vstart vm1 --verbose --con0=this
> results:
> Creating "/home/luca/netkit_stuff/netsukuku/vm1.disk" as COW file
> for "/home/luca/netkit/fs/netkit-fs"
> ubda: ubda1
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
>
> Whilst when I try:
> vstart vm2 --verbose --con0=this -m /home/luca/netkit/fs/my-own-fs
> results:
> Creating "/home/luca/netkit_stuff/netsukuku/vm2.disk" as COW file
> for "/home/luca/netkit/fs/my-own-fs"
> ubda: ubda1
> List of all partitions:
> 6200 1048576 ubda driver: uml-blkdev
> 6201 1048540 ubda1
> No filesystem could mount root, tried: ext3 ext2 cramfs romfs
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(98,0)
>
>
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