Re: virtio_blk fails for rhel5.3 guest with LVM: kernel panic

2009-06-24 Thread sudhir kumar
initrd does not contain these modules. My kernel contains the above modules. Is it mandatory for the initrd to contain these modules? It does not contain virtio-net and the guest boots fine with virtio. On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 06/23/2009 08:21 PM, sudhir kumar wrote

Re: virtio_blk fails for rhel5.3 guest with LVM: kernel panic

2009-06-24 Thread Avi Kivity
On 06/24/2009 12:41 PM, sudhir kumar wrote: initrd does not contain these modules. My kernel contains the above modules. Is it mandatory for the initrd to contain these modules? It does not contain virtio-net and the guest boots fine with virtio. virtio-net isn't used for locating the disks

Re: virtio_blk fails for rhel5.3 guest with LVM: kernel panic

2009-06-24 Thread Avi Kivity
On 06/23/2009 08:21 PM, sudhir kumar wrote: I see that Rhel5.3 32 and 64 bit guests fail to boot with virtio for block device. The guest can not find the root filesystem. The guest is using LVM. As per the linux-kvm wiki instructions I did change device.map and booted with if=virtio. The wiki li