From owner-freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Sat Aug 1 11:24:28 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8202D9B0314 for ; Sat, 1 Aug 2015 11:24:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nvass@gmx.com) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.15.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mout.gmx.net", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass DE-1" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E7D3219D6 for ; Sat, 1 Aug 2015 11:24:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nvass@gmx.com) Received: from moby.local ([79.107.15.195]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx003) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LrNE4-1YrgR50yb6-013A3w; Sat, 01 Aug 2015 13:24:19 +0200 Subject: Re: virtio disk device file "/dev/hast/shared" does not exist. Creating it ... To: Neel Natu References: <55BB7DCD.8070303@gmx.com> Cc: "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" From: Nikos Vassiliadis Message-ID: <55BCAC15.9040809@gmx.com> Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 14:23:01 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:GbEKDl8OqmUHiuhNAeUTs3NpfgGovJaS2gYA25YbRZrruhjwOUh NZDj7nCxAOvMlveBV6UXowV9pxow95ksgeYd9O4UyXMcteXOjP+zcW3F4rTVNxXM78OT3uI jSN8l135Lf5z8B8DPz5IQ5oRbuFgMSgenSRhxcvxHMul8RXLaTAO0QPWlalJUAcg4+nP972 hbxqWQdfPPizasjfNnZYQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:GBNVY5XHxDM=:/Ch//l/Fs2NPjP6WYfEe3k fvX5wROhu2xchnfdbh4eR4xXBTRzDebWx5k3z9LeA6BbpwtZBgda/okzp1c48I8gzXxH/91GE 53/4R5aja8JQr/cS7k89dizR6QBTnf7sDhoRESB4W0qfm4T/w0WcxNnqS9KjwEiqTXXCzV2Kg IfiXL4b6pFHdxI2mVrlJ+RoQ6dLR4T/GyPcYnKncYwliSWZN8mBu9+GpT8wAN/t7ShNFraU68 F8jHkFV/1PtwnWbrt7P6TtyOrQ4se5XBUNj882jtzVTv543YgwdfiKTgqYlG56x9qYOvdfvCz m9JkoNWJnzoXJnb0p478azhV8Z1jbbEyJmhOf4zuAEgRSEEPIlWqcW+Fhu7U2btTX7koCcuCg 6ZMQuNBtNist33Z2kEGDr83mJLKePb5dnKvUNH1fqNq+2s0vBG36GoxQzcX/kVKcO70QBAXAi +P68JjhkkiKcvB3z57Pg/LKBmJnd+dN9SF7ISmixwYsg2YXQLDTHLqK3QOiZeJtmMKpH1qKbg 4Nfd8be1i6BSRMzJTcXeO8/Szlz1TEl8L13uE+kgwMPxgqMOBFftDkjig71keaXz8oQq2rBpV 8BWj8T7kGInlQJHCEyObf/o74mQD/29ic371LUn4UZXJ6htat6nCYkGv3FVu29oskCWkiG5rF hUaibAr/ciETXHH9aouKOqepcYGiMghtBDG9pKjg9E1uFLb3srnNFIQB2VcTUWdacgD0= X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2015 11:24:28 -0000 On 08/01/15 03:23, Neel Natu wrote: > Hi Nikos, > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 6:53 AM, Nikos Vassiliadis 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!