Re: problem using kvm-guest-drivers

[Nikola Ciprich <extmaillist@linuxbox.cz>]

Hi Dennis,
thanks a lot for Your reply, the problem really was that I didn't know 
that virtio_pci module is also needed.
I'm not using LVM in guests, but it's good to know recent version would be 
needed for such case.
BR
nik.


On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:

> Nikola Ciprich wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I'm trying to get virtio_blk working, but I can't figure what am I doing
>> wrong...
>
> You'll probably have to build a new initrd image in the guest adding the
> following options to the mkinitrd call:
> "--with=virtio_pci --with=virtio_blk"
>
> This makes sure that the guest will find the virtual devices when booting.
>
> If you use LVM volume groups in the guest then you also need to make sure
> that you use a *very* recent version of the lvm2 package (not older than a
> month) because older versions don't scan the virtual block devices for
> volume groups due to a name change.
>
> Regards,
>   Dennis
>
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