OpenSUSE 11.1 does not see disks when installed in domU

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Hello,

I tried to boot OpenSUSE 11.1 from the kernel and initrd
provided on the DVD in a XEN 3.3.1 domU running on an
OpenSUSE 11.1 server. The virtual machine has several
LVM managed volumes exported from dom0. However, although
I can configure the network and start the installation
program, installation is not possible because the the
installation program does not recognize the disks.

I checked that the exported devices are there, found them
and was able to mount them (using export->start shell)
as /dev/hda1 on /mnt. So the configuration VM configuration
seems to be at least partially correct. The full configuration
is appended below.

How can I get an OpenSUSE guest to boot inside a domU
under XEN on an OpenSUSE 11.1 host?

Thanks in advance

Andreas Mueller

# boot from installation source
kernel="/suse/11.1/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz-xen"
ramdisk="/suse/11.1/boot/x86_64/initrd-xen"

builder="linux"
name = "vm1"
memory = 2048
vcpus = 1
on_crash = "destroy"
on_poweroff = "destroy"
on_reboot = "restart"
localtime = 0

disk =  'phy:system/vm1root,hda1,w','phy:system/vm1swap,hda2,w','phy:system/vm1var,hda3,w','phy:system/vm1local,hda4,w' ]

root = "/dev/hda1"

vif =  'mac=aa:cc:00:00:00:01,bridge=xenbr0' ]
vfb =  'type=vnc,vnclisten=0.0.0.0,vncunused=1' ]
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I’ve got the same problem
execpt that the Dom0 is a Gentoo Server.

Trying to install a Suse 11.1 DomU with a netinstall.
Partition is found and can be mounted under expert -> shell.

But partitioner in the Yast installer cannot find any disk

I’m using a loop disk image not LVM.

3

OK I solved it

in my config for disks i had :
hda1

I changed to
hda

and it worked!