On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 01:16:14PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, George Dunlap wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Olaf Hering <o...@aepfle.de> wrote:
> > > With staging-4.6 this domU boots from xvda, qemu creates an emulated
> > > disk. With staging no disk is found, unless the name is changed to hda.
> > > Looks like qemu-2.6 does not handle xvda either.
> > 
> > This was intentional; see this thread:
> > 
> > https://marc.info/?i=<1444820717-25565-1-git-send-email-anthony.per...@citrix.com>
> > 
> > The idea was to make it possible to create an HVM guest with no
> > emulated disks for guest booting with OVMF which contains PV drivers.
> 
> This breaks the domU becasue it changes its device names from 'xvd' to
> 'hd' if a xenlinux based kernel is used in domU.
> In other words: every SUSE domU out there.

And every Solaris domU too.
> 
> Olaf
> 
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