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Date:      Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:13:21 -0700
From:      Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com>
To:        Bryan Venteicher <bryanv@daemoninthecloset.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: dev/virtio stuff
Message-ID:  <1351718001.6034.17.camel@powernoodle.corp.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <163188575.1006.1351711992146.JavaMail.root@daemoninthecloset.org>
References:  <163188575.1006.1351711992146.JavaMail.root@daemoninthecloset.org>

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On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 12:33 -0700, Bryan Venteicher wrote:
> > 
> > Yep, it looks like I have to explicitly *mount* the virtio device
> for
> > it
> > to get created in /dev though.  Is that intended?
> > 
> 
> I don't get what you mean by *mount*. It should be probed at boot
> (or kernel module load time) and then GEOM should taste it and you're
> off to the races just like every other block device.
> 
> Bryan 

What I saw, was that if I did not put entries into the fstab to mount
the virtio devices, they never go created.

But, retesting it now, I think that I didn't have virtio setup correctly
from the linux box in the first place.

Sean




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