[Libguestfs] [PATCH 0/4] Allow QEMU if=... (block device emulation) to be overridden

[Matthew Booth]

On 12/02/10 12:40, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
> The background to this is that virt-v2v needs to boot the appliance
> with a specific block device emulation (eg. IDE, not virtio), because
> when it runs mkinitrd, mkinitrd will assume that the block devices
> available in the appliance are also the ones which apply at guest boot
> time.  There's no way to override this assumption in mkinitrd
> (particularly in the old mkinitrd versions that shipped with
> RHEL3/4/5), so we have to change libguestfs to allow this instead.
> 
> Rich.
> 

ACK to this whole series.

Matt
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