[libvirt-users] converted VMDK disk iamge and Virtio driver

[Eric Blake]

On 06/19/2014 08:23 AM, Paul Raines wrote:

[please don't top-post on technical lists]

> 
> virt-v2v is not an option for me as all I have are the VMDK images and
> don't have the VMware software to covert to OVA first.

Still, asking the virt-v2v developers (on the libguestfs mailing list,
rather than here), may get you more insight into your issues than what
we can provide here.

> 
> I really don't understand what is going wrong.  I also found
> https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/20511 and that still doesn't
> work.  Both /etc/fstab and grub.conf refer to the LABEL and not any
> device name.
> 
> In the boot process I see it explicitly says it is loading virtio_blk
> before
> the panic.  So it is like that driver just doesn't see the disk.  The
> host machine is a CentOS 6 box.  Is it possible the virtio in the libvirt
> for CentOS/RHEL6 is not compatiable with the virtio_blk driver in
> CentOS/RHEL5?  Either that, or something else getting loaded is causing
> interference?

Alas, I have no clue on what to suggest as your next debugging step.


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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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