On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 03:49:01AM +0200, Stefan de Konink wrote:

It seems that the attach device function really 'attaches' a (live) device to a non-active domain. Is this by design?

Otherwise I would not have a clue how to interpreted this message:

libvir: Xen Daemon error : POST operation failed: (xend.err 'Device /dev/xvdp (51952, tap) is already connected.')

(when I try to start the domain)

This seems like a bug in XenD to me - when attaching a disk we simply pass the SEXPR config straight into XenD's device_create RPC call. If it accepts it without error, that's pretty much where libvirt's involvement ends. So if it doesn't subsquently start there's something wrong with XenD - either it failed to reject an invalid config when libvirt made the device_create call, or it otherwise broke the guest in some way. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|