On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 10:50:02PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 5 September 2013 22:41, Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote: > > I don't know if there is a more appropriate place to ask about > > ARM / virtio questions. If there is please let me know. > > > > I'm trying to get qemu to boot an ARM appliance. Everything works up > > to the point where the kernel loads virtio drivers. The disks never > > show up. The full qemu command line and kernel messages are attached > > (this is a libguestfs boot test). > > > > virtio-blk-device fails the same way. > > > > I have no idea where to go next. Is there a missing kernel module? > > Missing kernel config? Non-upstream patches? > > Can you get any virtio device to work at all? > > Does it work if you compile the virtio drivers and > the virtio_mmio transport into the kernel instead of > making them modules? That's the obvious difference > between what you're doing and the configs I've tested with...
It turns out to be due to missing -dtb (device tree) parameter. Thanks, Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v
