Thanks, Kirk, that make it to work for manual installation ! Now the next logic question is how to make this work with kickstart ? In our environment, we normally use kickstart to (re)build all nodes, so it would be extremely helpful to get kickstart working for VM¹s as well.
Yiping On 7/11/14, 12:22 PM, "Kirk Kosinski" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi, this is controlled by the OS Type. The OS Type you are using may >not enable virtio disks. You can try the "Other PV" OS Type to get >virtio disks. This is what a VM with that OS Type looks like in my 4.3 >setup: > >[root@kvm-fedora ~]# lspci >00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440FX - 82441FX PMC [Natoma] (rev >02) >00:01.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II] >00:01.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 IDE >[Natoma/Triton II] >00:01.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 USB >[Natoma/Triton II] (rev 01) >00:01.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03) >00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 5446 >00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Red Hat, Inc Virtio network device >00:04.0 SCSI storage controller: Red Hat, Inc Virtio block device >00:05.0 RAM memory: Red Hat, Inc Virtio memory balloon >[root@kvm-fedora ~]# df -hT >Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >/dev/vda2 ext4 18G 820M 17G 5% / >devtmpfs devtmpfs 236M 0 236M 0% /dev >tmpfs tmpfs 246M 0 246M 0% /dev/shm >tmpfs tmpfs 246M 244K 246M 1% /run >tmpfs tmpfs 246M 0 246M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup >tmpfs tmpfs 246M 4.0K 246M 1% /tmp >/dev/vda1 ext4 477M 71M 377M 16% /boot > >Best regards, >Kirk > >On 07/11/2014 10:57 AM, Yiping Zhang wrote: >> Hi, All: >> >> My CloudStack environment is 4.3.0 running on rhel 6.5 and kvm >>hypervisor also running rhel 6.5. >> >> When I create my first VM from an imported rhel 6.5 ISO image, the >>root volume is identified as /dev/sda. Is there a way to force the root >>volume to be identified as /dev/vda device ? How do you create guest VM >>with /dev/vda root volume? >> >> Thanks >> >> Yiping >> >
