On Thursday 16 July 2009 10:39:02 Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 03:16:45PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 08:53:32AM -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote: > > > 4. Under qemu-kvm I created a simple Fedora guest definition. I > > > then copied and used a VMware F9 guest with a vmdk file which is > > > HWversion=4 and was created under VMware on a SCSI interface disk. > > > To make matters even worse, this VMware guest uses the "root" (/) > > > partition on a LVM logical volume. Boot the guest up on qemu-kvm > > > and it immediately crashes because it cannot find "root" or see the > > > logical volumes. > > > > I'm not really familiar with HWversion in VMWare. We just support > > whatever qemu / qemu-img supports, so I suggest trying to do a > > conversion using qemu-img (see my previous posting). > > Another suggestion (from Matt Booth who's not subscribed to this > list): > > Is the right SCSI driver available in the initrd? You should be able > to find out what driver(s) are in the guest's initrd using > virt-inspector. Light bulb lights above head! Yup, yup ... thank you very much! The problem is that the needed drivers are not in the initrd file. Now I know what the problem is but "fixing" it will need some thought. I knew it was something stupid on my part. Thanks again. Gene _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
