Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 14:23:01 +0300 From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@gmx.com> To: Neel Natu <neelnatu@gmail.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: <55BCAC15.9040809@gmx.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFgRE9G9ZMs__u8yPmAH=XHLRFe_vsHUrWkWya6fyr10DNOo8Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <55BB7DCD.8070303@gmx.com> <CAFgRE9G9ZMs__u8yPmAH=XHLRFe_vsHUrWkWya6fyr10DNOo8Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On 08/01/15 03:23, Neel Natu wrote: > 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. Oh thanks, didn't notice it was the script!
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