[Fedora-xen] Xl and /dev/null (no domU cfgfile)

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 01:30:43PM -0500, W. Michael Petullo wrote:
> The old xm command allowed for a domain to be configured from and
> command line using "xm create /dev/null kernel=x ..." Xl does not seem
> to support this:
> 
> $ sudo xl create /dev/null
> libxl: error: libxl_utils.c:328:libxl_read_file_contents /dev/null is not a plain file: Success
> Failed to read config file: /dev/null: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> 
> Does anyone know the preferred technique to create a domain without an
> existing domain configuration file (i.e., purely from the command line)?
> 

Sounds like a question to xen-devel mailinglist.. at least I haven't seen a solution to that so far.

(CC added).

-- Pasi