Hello Anthony,
thanks a lot for Your help! Loading virtio_pci did indeed 
solved my problem.
BR
nik



On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Anthony Liguori wrote:

> Nikola Ciprich wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I'm trying to get virtio_blk working, but I can't figure what am I doing 
>> wrong...
>> First thing I do not really understand is what kernels are supported, as in 
>> README file it is written:
>> 
>> Where /path/to/kernel is the path to a recent kernel tree containing virtio 
>> drivers.  At the moment, this must be Rusty Russell's virtio patch queue[1] 
>> applied on top of Linus' git tree[2].
>> 
>
> This is meant for when you're building the guest drivers from source.  If you 
> just download a tarball, this step is unnecessary.
>
>> and few lines later:
>> 
>> Supported Kernels
>> -----------------
>> 2.6.24, 2.6.23, 2.6.22, 2.6.21, 2.6.20, 2.6.19, 2.6.18
>> 
>> anyways, I'm not able to get it working either on 2.6.24, or latest GIT 
>> with rusty's patches.
>> 
>> If I run kvm with
>> ... -drive file=/some/file,if=virtio and then load virtio_blk inside it, I 
>> simply don't see any new block device appear.
>> 
>> What am I doing wrong?
>> 
>> Oh and I'm using kvm-64 with 2.6.24 for host.
>> 
>
> Make sure you have virtio_pci loaded in the guest.
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
>
>> Thanks a lot in advance for any hints.
>> 
>> BR
>> nik
>> 
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