[fedora-virt] Problem moving machine from Xen to KVM

[Mark McLoughlin]

On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 16:01 +0100, Jan ONDREJ (SAL) wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 02:42:07PM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 15:29 +0100, Jan ONDREJ (SAL) wrote:
> > 
> > >  Unable to do success with installing virtio_pci on
> > > 2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686.PAE but works well with 2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686.
> > > May be there is something wrong with PAE kernel or with initrd.
> > 
> > Please post the error messages to the fedora-virt at redhat.com list.
> 
> OK, doing here.
> 
> All my tryes to create an functional virtio initrd failed on kernel-PAE,
> when system was booted as "ide" machine.
> 
> Boot success happened with kernel (non-PAE) and after boot I was able to
> uninstall kernel-PAE and reinstall it. After this change there are all
> required modules installed and kernel-PAE boot with virtio drivers (disk
> and net).

Sorry, I'm a little confused - it's working okay for you now?

(Small tip for others, to check the contents of your initrd, do:

  $> mkdir initrd-dump && cd initrd-dump
  $> gzip -cd < /boot/initrd-foo.img | cpio -ivd
)

Cheers,
Mark.