From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: kvm-85: virtio-blk not working Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:57:12 -0500 Message-ID: <49F1EF68.4010909@codemonkey.ws> References: <200904231043.05001.gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> <49F1B6EF.8020709@mgpi.de> <200904241635.53966.gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com> <200904240954.29509.iggy@theiggy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Gerd v. Egidy" , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Brian Jackson Return-path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.183]:37024 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752151AbZDXQ5R (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:57:17 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j5so600806wah.21 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:57:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200904240954.29509.iggy@theiggy.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Brian Jackson wrote: > On Friday 24 April 2009 09:35:52 Gerd v. Egidy wrote: > >> Hi Bernhard, >> >> On Friday 24 April 2009 14:56:15 Bernhard Held wrote: >> >>>> does not boot, BIOS complains "Boot failed: could not read the boot >>>> disk": >>>> >>>> -drive file=/dev/VolGroup00/testpart,if=virtio,index=0 \ >>>> >>> Please try with: >>> -drive file=/dev/VolGroup00/testpart,if=virtio,index=0,boot=on \ >>> >> That's it! With boot=on it works. >> >> Thanks for pointing this out. >> >> Was this change intentional? I didn't see it mentioned in the changelog and >> could not even find the "boot"-parameter in the qemu-kvm manpage. >> > > > The boot=on parameter has been required since virtio_blk existed (or very > close to it). There is no official qemu/kvm manpage. That's something some > distros pulled out of thin air. So bugs with it should be reported to your > distro. > Sure there is. It's generated from qemu-doc.texi. Regards, Anthony Liguori