From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felix Leimbach Subject: Re: virtio with 2.6.25-rc8: problem with /dev/vda Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:38:33 +0200 Message-ID: <47FC7279.60400@gmx.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1409748631==" Cc: KVM To: Jun Koi 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 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============1409748631== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------060801090700000500060404" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------060801090700000500060404 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > However, I got booting error like "/dev/vda1 doest exist...", so boot > failure. How can I fix this? make sure that your command line on the host looks like that: kvm -drive file=,if=virtio,boot=on And check that the guest has the following kernel option enabled: CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK regards, Felix --------------060801090700000500060404 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > However, I got booting error like "/dev/vda1 doest exist...", so boot
> failure. How can I fix this?

make sure that your command line on the host looks like that:
kvm -drive file=<your-image>,if=virtio,boot=on <other stuff here>

And check that the guest has the following kernel option enabled:
CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK

regards,
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