Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 17:23:27 -0700 From: Neel Natu <neelnatu@gmail.com> To: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@gmx.com> Cc: "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: virtio disk device file "/dev/hast/shared" does not exist. Creating it ... Message-ID: <CAFgRE9G9ZMs__u8yPmAH=XHLRFe_vsHUrWkWya6fyr10DNOo8Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <55BB7DCD.8070303@gmx.com> References: <55BB7DCD.8070303@gmx.com>
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Hi Nikos, On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 6:53 AM, Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@gmx.com> wrote: > Hi, > > While trying to use a HAST device as my storage I got this message. > >> Booting... >> virtio disk device file "/dev/hast/shared" does not exist. >> Creating it ... >> GDB: no debug ports present >> KDB: debugger backends: ddb >> KDB: current backend: ddb >> Copyright (c) 1992-2015 The FreeBSD Project. >> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 > > > Does anybody know what "creating it" mean in this regard? > I assume you are using vmrun.sh to start the virtual machine. If the backing file for the virtio disk device does not exist then the script will create it before launching the virtual machine. See 'make_and_check_diskdev()' function in vmrun.sh. best Neel > Thank in advance, > Nikos > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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