XEN with loopback devices
Monday, January 26th, 2009 |One of the most annoying things with XEN and loopback devices is that at some point you will run out of them. Especially if you like me have a setup with more than 15 virtual servers (not all of them are running at the same time).
I just ran into “Error: Device 5632 (vdb) coulnt not be connected. losetup $lo flags $loopdev $file”, which after some digging means that there are no free loopback devices.
The nice thing is that there is a way to solve it, instead of having;
In your DomU replace
disk=[ ..., 'file:/..../file.iso...
with
disk=[ ..., 'tap:aio:/..../file.iso...
Then you DomU should start just fine.
Read more here.