{"id":85,"date":"2011-09-13T08:58:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T14:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tavshed.com\/?p=85"},"modified":"2011-09-13T08:58:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T14:58:29","slug":"failed-to-find-an-unused-loop-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tavshed.com\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"Xen Failed to find an unused loop device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Create a new Xen instance yesterday and had issues getting it started.  Already have 4 instances running and the error message &#8220;Failed to find an unused loop device&#8221; kept appearing.<\/p>\n<p>I could shutdown another instance and bring the new one up, but then the instance I had shutdown would not come back up and had the same error.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, I ran across the following post that provided all the information.<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/denraelevisgniht.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/failed-to-find-unused-loop-device.html<\/p>\n<p>I created file \/etc\/modprobe.d\/local-loop with one line.<br \/>\noptions loop max_loop=64<\/p>\n<p>After reboot, all instances would come up without a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Create a new Xen instance yesterday and had issues getting it started. Already have 4 instances running and the error message &#8220;Failed to find an unused loop device&#8221; kept appearing. I could shutdown another instance and bring the new one up, but then the instance I had shutdown would not come back up and had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debian","category-xen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2lczV-1n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tavshed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tavshed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tavshed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tavshed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tavshed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tavshed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/www.tavshed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tavshed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tavshed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tavshed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}