Re: KVM-88 broke VirtIO Hard Disks

Dustin Kirkland
2009-07-30T22:19:13Z

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Alexey Eromenko<aeromenk@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> ----- "Marcelo Tosatti" <mtosatti@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 07:37:37AM -0400, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi All !
>> >
>> > In addition to Floppy controllers KVM-88 also break VirtIO hard
>> disks. (Windows 2003 Drivers refuse to work now)
>> >
>> > Linux (RHEL 5.3/x64) still boots off VirtIO Hard Disk.
>> >
>> > It turned out to be a Qemu merge into KVM userspace:
>> > kvm-87-119-ga8b7f95 (commit
>> a8b7f959d1fd97c4ccaf08ce750020ecd08b4c88)
>> >
>> > Can you look into it?
>>
>> Not sure if you familiar with this, but anyway:
>>
>> $ git diff-tree -p bf011293f  | patch -R -p1
>>
>
> Yes, Thanks, This is it ! This is the problem.

I, too, can confirm that reverting this commit solves the same problem
for me. Having reverted the commit, I can once again boot with virtio
disks.

:-Dustin