From: Tomas Rusnak <linker@korex.sk>
To: Haydn Solomon <haydn.solomon@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Booting from Virtio block device
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:08:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47C65DE6.2050400@korex.sk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b75785ba0802272122j63512f93t9f100a2627ce4620@mail.gmail.com>
Hello
You must add root=/dev/vdaX, where X is number of your boot partition,
to kernel boot parameters. In lilo.conf you must add this to append line.
Have a nice day
Haydn Solomon napsal(a):
> First of all, thank you for all the great work on this project.
>
> I am trying to boot a linux guest from virtio block device. I followed
> the howto on the wiki but guest is not able to locate root device. Only
> thing I am doing differently from the wiki is using the virtio_* modules
> rather than recompiling kernel. My test environment is as follows
>
> guest: Fedora 9 with latest 2.6.25 kernel
>
> KVM ver 62
>
> Host: (Fedora 8) Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 #1 SMP
> Sun Feb 10 17:03:13 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> Any guidance will be appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Haydn
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-28 7:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-28 5:22 Booting from Virtio block device Haydn Solomon
2008-02-28 7:08 ` Tomas Rusnak [this message]
2008-02-28 8:05 ` Dor Laor
2008-02-28 12:41 ` Haydn Solomon
2008-02-28 13:08 ` Avi Kivity
2008-02-28 17:42 ` Haydn Solomon
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