From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tomas Rusnak Subject: Re: Booting from Virtio block device Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:08:22 +0100 Message-ID: <47C65DE6.2050400@korex.sk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel To: Haydn Solomon Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > kvm-devel mailing list > kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel -- Tomas Rusnak, Korex Networks ____________________________ Korex s.r.o. Pernikarska 8 010 01 Zilina Slovak Republic tel +421 41 562 5648 email tomas.rusnak@korex.sk web www.korex.sk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/