I'm running F8, xen-3.1.2-1.fc8, 2.6.21.7-2890.fc9xen. I have a xen configuration which contains this stanza: disk = [ 'file:/var/lib/xen/images/recovery.img,hda,w' , 'file:/var/lib/xen/images/WindowsXP.img,hdb,w' # , ',hdc:cdrom,r' , 'phy:hda,ioemu:hdd,r' ] If I comment out the line containing "'phy:hda,ioemu:hdd,r' then the xm create line works and the guest starts up and runs fine. Whether I have "ioemu" doesn't make any obvious difference, google suggested it. With the stanza as above, it fails: [root@potoroo ~]# time xm create -c recovery Using config file "/etc/xen/recovery". Error: Device 5696 (vbd) could not be connected. Hotplug scripts not working. real 1m44.750s user 0m0.080s sys 0m0.067s [root@potoroo ~]# The only other thing I see is the VNC console opens, but it displays with a white background. These are the messages logged to xend.log: [2008-01-18 11:00:24 2652] INFO (image:129) buildDomain os=hvm dom=27 vcpus=1 [2008-01-18 11:00:24 2652] INFO (XendDomainInfo:1458) createDevice: vfb : {'vncunused': 1, 'other_config': {'vncunused': 1}, 'uuid': '6c9425f6-7800-4325-bcd7-b917ce2f8955'} [2008-01-18 11:00:24 2652] INFO (XendDomainInfo:1458) createDevice: vbd : {'uuid': '0f4b1edf-a164-6b3a-ebd2-395532720861', 'bootable': 1, 'driver': 'paravirtualised', 'dev': 'hda', 'uname': 'file:/var/lib/xen/images/recovery.img', 'mode': 'w'} [2008-01-18 11:00:24 2652] INFO (XendDomainInfo:1458) createDevice: vbd : {'uuid': '5c84f484-c9df-f60d-ccec-9a4bf7e47e64', 'bootable': 0, 'driver': 'paravirtualised', 'dev': 'hdb', 'uname': 'file:/var/lib/xen/images/WindowsXP.img', 'mode': 'w'} [2008-01-18 11:00:24 2652] INFO (XendDomainInfo:1458) createDevice: vbd : {'uuid': 'f34d1d46-dd15-7572-6661-26570af507a7', 'bootable': 0, 'driver': 'ioemu', 'dev': 'ioemu:hdd', 'uname': 'phy:hda', 'mode': 'r'} [2008-01-18 11:00:24 2652] INFO (XendDomainInfo:1458) createDevice: vif : {'bridge': 'xenbr0', 'mac': '00:16:3e:33:b1:83', 'type': 'ioemu', 'uuid': 'b5fca1da-8850-0723-bf2e-edbf7635832e'} [2008-01-18 11:00:24 2652] INFO (image:454) spawning device models: /usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm ['/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm', '-d', '27', '-vcpus', '1', '-boot', 'cd', '-soundhw', 'sb16', '-localtime', '-serial', 'pty', '-acpi', '-usb', '-usbdevice', 'tablet', '-domain-name', 'recovery', '-net', 'nic,vlan=1,macaddr=00:16:3e:33:b1:83,model=rtl8139', '-net', 'tap,vlan=1,bridge=xenbr0', '-vnc', '127.0.0.1:0', '-vncunused', '-vncviewer'] [2008-01-18 11:00:24 2652] INFO (image:458) device model pid: 29112 "recovery" is a Debian system, I created it under KVM and I've mentioned it here before. Here is the Xen configuration: [root@potoroo xen]# cat /etc/xen/recovery | grep -Ev '^($|#)' import os, re arch = os.uname()[4] if re.search('64', arch): arch_libdir = 'lib64' else: arch_libdir = 'lib' kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader" builder='hvm' memory = 128 name = "recovery" vif = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr0' ] disk = [ 'file:/var/lib/xen/images/recovery.img,hda,w' , 'file:/var/lib/xen/images/WindowsXP.img,hdb,w' , 'phy:hda,ioemu:hdd,r' ] device_model = '/usr/' + arch_libdir + '/xen/bin/qemu-dm' boot="cd" sdl=0 vnc=1 vncconsole=1 vncpasswd='' stdvga=0 serial='pty' soundhw='sb16' localtime=1 usb=1 usbdevice='tablet' [root@potoroo xen]# -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen