Re: [Fedora-xen] Goodbye Xen on RH/Fedora?

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones redhat com>]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 02:28:36PM +0100, Jan ONDREJ (SAL) wrote:
> virtio_net works well, but I have trouble to boot from virtio_blk.
> 
> I can add second disk as virto block device, but I can't boot from first
> disk. When using sedond disk, everything works well. When booting via grub,
> this is on console:

Upgrading to using virtio_blk is very complicated.  You have to
rebuild initrd, and there's a difficult circular dependency to be
resolved when doing this because you need to be using virtio_blk in
order for mkinitrd to believe that you need it, although possibly
mkinitrd supports some command line argument to override this.  I
actually gave up at this point.

For newly installed guests, recent anaconda just works everything out
for you and puts the correct drivers into initrd.

Rich.

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