Re: kvm-85: virtio-blk not working

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Brian Jackson wrote:
> On Friday 24 April 2009 09:35:52 Gerd v. Egidy wrote:
>   
>> Hi Bernhard,
>>
>> On Friday 24 April 2009 14:56:15 Bernhard Held wrote:
>>     
>>>> does not boot, BIOS complains "Boot failed: could not read the boot
>>>> disk":
>>>>
>>>> -drive file=/dev/VolGroup00/testpart,if=virtio,index=0 \
>>>>         
>>> Please try with:
>>> -drive file=/dev/VolGroup00/testpart,if=virtio,index=0,boot=on \
>>>       
>> That's it! With boot=on it works.
>>
>> Thanks for pointing this out.
>>
>> Was this change intentional? I didn't see it mentioned in the changelog and
>> could not even find the "boot"-parameter in the qemu-kvm manpage.
>>     
>
>
> The boot=on parameter has been required since virtio_blk existed (or very 
> close to it). There is no official qemu/kvm manpage. That's something some 
> distros pulled out of thin air. So bugs with it should be reported to your 
> distro.
>   

Sure there is.  It's generated from qemu-doc.texi.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori