From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gleb Natapov Subject: Re: grub booting from virtio but can't see virtio disks Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 08:58:59 +0300 Message-ID: <20100803055859.GR24773@redhat.com> References: <20100802190548.GF18585@/bin/hostname> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: kvm To: Martin Kraus Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:24334 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754897Ab0HCF7D (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Aug 2010 01:59:03 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100802190548.GF18585@/bin/hostname> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.