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From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Martin Kraus <lists_mk@wujiman.net>
Cc: kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: grub booting from virtio but can't see virtio disks
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 08:58:59 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100803055859.GR24773@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100802190548.GF18585@/bin/hostname>

On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 09:05:48PM +0200, Martin Kraus wrote:
> Hi. I've been wondering why grub can boot from a virtio device but can't see
> virtio devices. I wanted to have a generic disk which would have a bios
> partition with grub modules and this would include grub.cfg from a second disk.
> I could use this image to boot all my virtual linux machines without the need
> to have a partition on a logical volume. This way I have a separate virtio
> boot lv with partitions and it works fine. It just doesn't seem as nice and I'm
> curious if there is a way to get it to work, meaning if for example using efi
> or some other kind of bios for qemu or grub module would help it.
> 
What is your qemu version and qemu command line?

--
			Gleb.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-03  5:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-02 19:05 grub booting from virtio but can't see virtio disks Martin Kraus
2010-08-03  5:58 ` Gleb Natapov [this message]
2010-08-07 15:31   ` Martin Kraus
2010-08-08 11:39     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-08-08 16:14       ` Martin Kraus

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