Re: [kvm-devel] Booting from Virtio block device

2008-02-28 Thread Haydn Solomon
Ok, got it to work. Like the docs said, I needed to be careful with ramdisk; I didn't install enough modules in the ramdisk first time around. The Fedora9 vm is booting up much faster on virtio but haven't done any official timings. Network seems to be performing faster too when downloading big fi

Re: [kvm-devel] Booting from Virtio block device

2008-02-28 Thread Avi Kivity
Haydn Solomon wrote: > I didn't create the initrd with the modules preloaded. Still not > working yet but I'm wondering... will this work with LVM volumes? > It's actually easier since you don't have to change your root= line. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function --

Re: [kvm-devel] Booting from Virtio block device

2008-02-28 Thread Haydn Solomon
I didn't create the initrd with the modules preloaded. Still not working yet but I'm wondering... will this work with LVM volumes? On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 3:05 AM, Dor Laor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 00:22 -0500, Haydn Solomon wrote: > > First of all, thank you for all

Re: [kvm-devel] Booting from Virtio block device

2008-02-28 Thread Tomas Rusnak
Hello You must add root=/dev/vdaX, where X is number of your boot partition, to kernel boot parameters. In lilo.conf you must add this to append line. Have a nice day Haydn Solomon napsal(a): > First of all, thank you for all the great work on this project. > > I am trying to boot a linux gues

Re: [kvm-devel] Booting from Virtio block device

2008-02-28 Thread Dor Laor
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 00:22 -0500, Haydn Solomon wrote: > First of all, thank you for all the great work on this project. > > I am trying to boot a linux guest from virtio block device. I followed > the howto on the wiki but guest is not able to locate root device. > Only thing I am doing differ

[kvm-devel] Booting from Virtio block device

2008-02-27 Thread Haydn Solomon
First of all, thank you for all the great work on this project. I am trying to boot a linux guest from virtio block device. I followed the howto on the wiki but guest is not able to locate root device. Only thing I am doing differently from the wiki is using the virtio_* modules rather than recomp