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From: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: penberg@kernel.org, asias.hejun@gmail.com,
	prasadjoshi124@gmail.com, gorcunov@gmail.com,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kvm tools: Add virtio-9p
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 23:27:31 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305664052.12150.43.camel@sasha> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1305659307.12150.37.camel@sasha>

On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 22:08 +0300, Sasha Levin wrote:
> 'kvm_9p' isn't created as a device under /dev, it's just a name used
> internally by 9pnet_virtio (and located under sysfs).
> 
> I couldn't figure out which params the kernel would expect to boot using
> 9p over virtio (theres no device name to begin with).
> 
> I've also couldn't find anything that suggested it's possible to boot
> using virtio-9p as rootfs.

Ignore that.

Naming the virtio transport "/dev/root" and passing proper params to the
kernel makes it work:

[    1.844983] VFS: Mounted root (9p filesystem) on device 0:11.

I'll make some changes to the virtio-9p patch to make it easier for the
user to do that.

-- 

Sasha.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-17 20:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-17 18:35 [PATCH 1/2] kvm tools: Copy net/9p/9p.h Sasha Levin
2011-05-17 18:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] kvm tools: Add virtio-9p Sasha Levin
2011-05-17 18:40   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-17 19:08     ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-17 19:20       ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-17 20:27       ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2011-05-18  1:18         ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-05-18  8:08           ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-18  9:05           ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-20  1:10             ` Venkateswararao Jujjuri
2011-05-26 14:28             ` Venkateswararao Jujjuri
2011-05-26 14:36               ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-26 15:22                 ` Venkateswararao Jujjuri
2011-05-26 15:30                   ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-18 12:01         ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-18 12:06           ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-18 12:23             ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-18  6:38   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-05-18 10:35     ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-18 10:38       ` Pekka Enberg
2011-05-18 10:47         ` Sasha Levin
2011-05-18 11:09           ` Ingo Molnar

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