From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernhard Held Subject: Re: kvm-85: virtio-blk not working Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:56:15 +0200 Message-ID: <49F1B6EF.8020709@mgpi.de> References: <200904231043.05001.gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> <200904231857.48010.gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> <20090423173431.GO2455@nerd.dk> <200904241358.39698.gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andreas Plesner Jacobsen , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:48943 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757158AbZDXM41 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:56:27 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LxKx8-0002T4-3Q for kvm@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:56:26 +0000 Received: from smtp.mgpi.de ([212.202.249.42]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:56:26 +0000 Received: from bheld by smtp.mgpi.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:56:26 +0000 In-Reply-To: <200904241358.39698.gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > does not boot, BIOS complains "Boot failed: could not read the boot disk": > > -drive file=/dev/VolGroup00/testpart,if=virtio,index=0 \ O.k., this doesn't work on my box too. Please try with: -drive file=/dev/VolGroup00/testpart,if=virtio,index=0,boot=on \ Anthony wrote "index doesn't have meaning with virtio-blk". You should omit it, but it doesn't harm on my box. Bernhard