From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: 4.7 qemu regression: HVM guests fail to boot from xvda
Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 13:16:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160531111614.GA13143@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFLBxZYftQ3Ci7OGUBwa0OFesxj0ZLwMRuRfJP-WCP8R=bQOpg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, May 31, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> wrote:
> > With staging-4.6 this domU boots from xvda, qemu creates an emulated
> > disk. With staging no disk is found, unless the name is changed to hda.
> > Looks like qemu-2.6 does not handle xvda either.
>
> This was intentional; see this thread:
>
> https://marc.info/?i=<1444820717-25565-1-git-send-email-anthony.perard@citrix.com>
>
> The idea was to make it possible to create an HVM guest with no
> emulated disks for guest booting with OVMF which contains PV drivers.
This breaks the domU becasue it changes its device names from 'xvd' to
'hd' if a xenlinux based kernel is used in domU.
In other words: every SUSE domU out there.
Olaf
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Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-30 20:42 4.7 qemu regression: HVM guests fail to boot from xvda Olaf Hering
2016-05-31 11:02 ` George Dunlap
2016-05-31 11:16 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2016-05-31 11:32 ` George Dunlap
2016-05-31 11:41 ` Olaf Hering
2016-05-31 12:00 ` George Dunlap
2016-05-31 12:04 ` Olaf Hering
2016-06-01 13:17 ` Olaf Hering
2016-06-01 21:40 ` Olaf Hering
2016-06-02 11:49 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-02 12:06 ` Olaf Hering
2016-05-31 12:15 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-01 9:48 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-01 13:34 ` Olaf Hering
2016-06-01 14:11 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-01 14:32 ` Olaf Hering
2016-06-01 15:36 ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-03 10:13 ` George Dunlap
2016-06-03 11:20 ` Olaf Hering
2016-06-03 11:27 ` George Dunlap
2016-06-03 11:45 ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-06 10:39 ` George Dunlap
2016-06-06 10:52 ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-06 11:43 ` George Dunlap
2016-06-06 12:49 ` George Dunlap
2016-06-07 14:08 ` George Dunlap
2016-06-07 14:27 ` Olaf Hering
2016-06-08 10:17 ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-07 19:06 ` Olaf Hering
2016-06-08 10:18 ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-08 10:23 ` George Dunlap
2016-06-08 10:30 ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-08 10:49 ` George Dunlap
2016-06-08 11:13 ` Olaf Hering
2016-06-08 15:56 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-06-03 11:50 ` Olaf Hering
2016-05-31 12:10 ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-31 13:41 ` George Dunlap
2016-05-31 14:10 ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-31 16:15 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-06-08 11:38 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-08 12:04 ` Olaf Hering
2016-06-08 12:09 ` Wei Liu
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