Caleb Tennis schrieb:
I've been very unsuccessful in using the virtio block drivers inside of
a guest. I can't seem to make them active. I'm positive my kernel has
support for them turned on (not as a module, but as a direct built in),
but when I change one of my ide drives over to virtio and boot, it isn't
found, and nothing under /sys or /dev indicates the presence of a
device. dmesg doesn't indicate anything about them either. I DO have
virtio networking enabled and working, so I know as a whole that some of
the virtio subsystem is functional.
The only thing I think I'm doing possibly differently than normal is
using the "-kernel" option to boot up from a kernel image vs. having an
installed boot image via lilo or grub. Would this make any difference?
Is there any way for me to debug some more as to why the block drivers
don't seem to be showing up?
Did you try other guests?
For example, try downloading a SystemRescueCd beta - it includes virtio
drivers:
http://www.sysresccd.org/Beta-x86
Boot the guest from this CD, with a drive attached as virtio.
Load virtio drivers - do you see /dev/vda?
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