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

[Paul Raines]

I have a CentOS 5 VM in vmware I wanted to move to work on KVM/libvirt. I used 
qemu-img to convert it to a qcow2 image, loaded virt-manager and created a new 
VM pointed at that qcow2 image.  The boot paniced when it tried to mount
the root filesystem also complaining about not being able to remount the
swap partition.

I played around and was able to get it to boot by changing the Virtual disk 
bus to IDE from Virtio.  Searched about Virtio and I got to 
http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Virtio and ran the mkinitrd mentioned to force 
loading of the virtio_pci and virtio_blk drivers.  But upon shutting down, 
configuring the bus back to Virtio and booting it panics in the exact same 
way.

I tried again after adding virtio_blk into /etc/modprobe.conf as 
scsi_hostadapter and rerunning mkinitrd but it still fails.

Any clues what I am missing?


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Paul Raines                     http://help.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
MGH/MIT/HMS Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
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