[Libguestfs] appliance VM won't start, can't find /init, but /init is in the image.

David Konerding dek at konerding.com
Fri Aug 12 22:34:13 UTC 2011


On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 03:13:30PM -0700, David Konerding wrote:
> > febootstrap: internal insmod virtio_ring.ko
> > febootstrap: internal insmod virtio.ko
> > febootstrap: internal insmod virtio-rng.ko
> > febootstrap: internal insmod virtio_console.ko
> > febootstrap: internal insmod virtio_balloon.ko
> > febootstrap: no ext2 root device found
> > Please include FULL verbose output in your bug report.
>
> Sorry, disregard the previous answer.
>
> The real reason is that you don't have a virtio block driver
> (virtio_blk.ko).  This needs to be built as a module in your kernel.
>
> Is this a standard Ubuntu kernel?
>
>
Mostly, but there are some modifications.  I think the kernel team just
didn't compile it in.  I'll check with them but probably nothing will be
done until next week.

Dave

Rich.
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