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Subject: Re: virtio block drivers not working
From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo () wpkg ! org>
Date: 2009-03-22 18:34:39
Message-ID: 49C684BF.8070808 () wpkg ! org
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Caleb Tennis schrieb:
> I've been very unsuccessful in using the virtio block drivers inside of
> a guest. I can't seem to make them active. I'm positive my kernel has
> support for them turned on (not as a module, but as a direct built in),
> but when I change one of my ide drives over to virtio and boot, it isn't
> found, and nothing under /sys or /dev indicates the presence of a
> device. dmesg doesn't indicate anything about them either. I DO have
> virtio networking enabled and working, so I know as a whole that some of
> the virtio subsystem is functional.
>
> The only thing I think I'm doing possibly differently than normal is
> using the "-kernel" option to boot up from a kernel image vs. having an
> installed boot image via lilo or grub. Would this make any difference?
>
> Is there any way for me to debug some more as to why the block drivers
> don't seem to be showing up?
Did you try other guests?
For example, try downloading a SystemRescueCd beta - it includes virtio
drivers:
http://www.sysresccd.org/Beta-x86
Boot the guest from this CD, with a drive attached as virtio.
Load virtio drivers - do you see /dev/vda?
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Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org
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