Re: virtio & minimal .config

[Thomas Mueller <thomas@chaschperli.ch>]

>>>>   
>>>>       
>>> Please post your command line for launching KVM.  Make sure you have a 
>>> root parameter like "root=/dev/vda1".
>>>     
>> the "vda1" thing i didn't know. thanks. will also give it a try - tomorrow.
>>
>> Is "virtio" block device replacing SATA/SCSI  - are the  SCSI/SATA 
>> drivers needed on guest?
>>   
> 
> The virtio block driver should be the only block driver you need in the 
> guest unless you want to give the guest a cdrom (which requires IDE).  
> The virtio block protocol should support everything needed to expose a 
> CDROM to a guest but we haven't implemented backend support for it yet.

thanks to Anthony, you led me to the right direction. it's working now.
problem was mainly that there's a new (ok, don't know if it's realy new,
but i never used it) -drive  option.

i just updated http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Virtio with my new
knowledge. :)

- Thomas



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