Problem with Xen blktap in Squeeze

[Mozafar Roshany <mzfroshany@gmail.com>]

Hi all.

I had the same exact problem in Debian Lenny, which I asked about in Xen mailing list. It was solved simply by loading xenblktap and creating a symlink to tapdisk binary.

Anyway also now with Xen 4 and Debian Squeeze (6.0.5), I cann't get a DomU working with tap:aio or tap:tapdisk:aio (or ???). It just works with file: URI (loop driver) which AFAIK not good for production. 

"xm console alab1" just after "xm create alab1.cfg" : http://paste.debian.net/182363/

(It just hangs in XENBUS: Waiting for devices to initialise: 295s...290s...285s...)

tail -f /var/log/xen/* : http://paste.debian.net/182364/

uname -a:  Linux xen1 2.6.32-5-xen-686 #1 SMP Sun May 6 07:43:49 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux

dpkg -l | grep xen:

ii  libc6-xen                             2.11.3-3                     Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries [Xen version]

ii  libxenstore3.0                        4.0.1-5.2                    Xenstore communications library for Xen

ii  linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-686          2.6.32-45                    Linux 2.6.32 for modern PCs, Xen dom0 support

ii  linux-image-xen-686                   2.6.32+29                    Linux for modern PCs (meta-package), Xen dom0 support

ii  xen-hypervisor-4.0-i386               4.0.1-5.2                    The Xen Hypervisor on i386

ii  xen-tools                             4.2-1                        Tools to manage Xen virtual servers

ii  xen-utils-4.0                         4.0.1-5.2                    XEN administrative tools

ii  xen-utils-common                      4.1.2-6                      Xen administrative tools - common files

ii  xenstore-utils                        4.0.1-5.2                    Xenstore utilities for Xen

Any comments would be appreciated.