problem using kvm-guest-drivers

[Nikola Ciprich <extmaillist@linuxbox.cz>]

Hello,
I'm trying to get virtio_blk working, but I can't figure what am I doing 
wrong...
First thing I do not really understand is what kernels are supported, as 
in README file it is written:

Where /path/to/kernel is the path to a recent kernel tree containing 
virtio drivers.  At the moment, this must be Rusty Russell's virtio patch 
queue[1] applied on top of Linus' git tree[2].

and few lines later:

Supported Kernels
-----------------
2.6.24, 2.6.23, 2.6.22, 2.6.21, 2.6.20, 2.6.19, 2.6.18

anyways, I'm not able to get it working either on 2.6.24, or latest GIT 
with rusty's patches.

If I run kvm with
... -drive file=/some/file,if=virtio and then load virtio_blk inside it, I 
simply don't see any new block device appear.

What am I doing wrong?

Oh and I'm using kvm-64 with 2.6.24 for host.

Thanks a lot in advance for any hints.

BR
nik


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