From: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
To: James Brackinshaw <jbrackinshaw@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, virt-tools-list <virt-tools-list@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: virt-install: hda disks?
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:51:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AC37075.3090901@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <abc54bf00909300728g1b617e9l838e892b637a1a8e@mail.gmail.com>
On 09/30/2009 10:28 AM, James Brackinshaw wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Not sure if this is the right place to ask this.
>
virt-install questions should be directed to virt-tools-list@redhat.com
> I'm getting hda disks by default with kvm under RHEL5.4 using
> virt-install. This seems an odd default. Is there a reason for hda
> disks over sda disks? Can I change this?
>
virt-install/libvirt defaults to IDE for disk devices (as does directly
launching qemu or kvm). These disks will show up in a RHEL5 guest as
/dev/hda, etc. In newer distros, these disks show up as /dev/sda, etc.
It's just a matter of the RHEL5 stack being older than the hdX -> sdX
change.
If you want to use scsi disks via virt-install, you can use:
virt-install --disk ...,bus=scsi
Though AIUI it's generally considered buggy at the qemu level, and may
even be disabled in RHEL5.4
- Cole
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-30 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-30 14:28 virt-install: hda disks? James Brackinshaw
2009-09-30 14:51 ` Cole Robinson [this message]
2009-09-30 15:11 ` James Brackinshaw
2009-09-30 15:14 ` Cole Robinson
2009-09-30 15:18 ` James Brackinshaw
2009-09-30 15:23 ` Cole Robinson
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