[Netkit.users] How do I create a disk image to use with netkit?

[Luca Dionisi]

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Massimo
Rimondini<rimondin at dia.uniroma3.it> wrote:
> Dear Luca,
>
> in the second case, try passing "--append=root=98:1" as option to vstart.

Thanks Massimo. It did the trick.

>
> 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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