On Thursday 16 July 2009 15:42:41 Gene Czarcinski wrote: > > 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. OK, I got a "fix" that worked and the problem definitely was that the initrd file did not contain the right/needed drivers for the new hardware configuration. First: The guest is an i386 F9 system. Although the VMware guest used a SCSI adapter, I used a IDE adapter on qemu-kvm. I did not bother converting the file but just used a copy of the vmdk file. To get a good initrd file: Bootup the F9 i386 distribution DVD and run rescue mode. Use scp to copy the "current" kernel and firmware rpms (the guest was not up-to-date). chroot the the guest's disks. Install the kernel and firmware rpms. Reboot to the updated guests ... everything works! Success! Before installing a new kernel rpm to get the updated initrd file, I tried just running mkinitrd for the rescue/chroot mode but this did not appear to generate a correct initrd file (it did not work). I used: mkinitrd /boot/initrd______.img <kernel_version> Whatever "dance" installing a kernel does to create a good initrd file, just running mkinitrd is not it. Any suggestions? It would be nice to just run mkinitrd to fix things. Q: Does virt-p2v fixup initrd as part of its process? [No, I have not tried it yet] Since guestfish gives me access to the filesystems on a virtual disk, it would be nice if I could (easily) update the initrd to have the right drivers. This may not be practical since guestfish does not know what the guest's hardware configuration looks like ... running rescue-mod and chroot may be the best that can be used to fix things. Once I get the process down for migrating a Fedora guest from VMware to qemu- kvm, I will then look into the far bigger challenge of (ugh) Windows. Gene _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
