Switching from IDE to virtio_blk [qas Re: [Fedora-xen] Goodbye Xen on RH/Fedora?]

[Emre Erenoglu]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com> wrote:

> (This is all getting offtopic for fedora-xen, we should really move to
> fedora-virt)
>
> On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 14:28 +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 switching from IDE to virtio, you need to first build a new initrd
> in the guest with e.g.:
>
>  $> mkinitrd --with virtio_pci --with virtio_blk -f
> /boot/initrd-$(kernelversion) $(kernelversion)
>
> You only need to do this once. After that, if a new kernel is installed
> while you're booted off a virtio disk, then mkinitrd will include the
> modules automatically.


You will also need to specify /dev/vdX on the kernel  root= line and make
sure your init script inside your initrd triggers the virtio drivers at boot
so that the /dev/vdX are created.

-- 
Emre
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