On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Cole Robinson <crobinso@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/30/2009 10:28 AM, James Brackinshaw wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Not sure if this is the right place to ask this. >> > > virt-install questions should be directed to virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx Thanks. >> I'm getting hda disks by default with kvm under RHEL5.4 using >> virt-install. This seems an odd default. Is there a reason for hda >> disks over sda disks? Can I change this? >> > > virt-install/libvirt defaults to IDE for disk devices (as does directly > launching qemu or kvm). These disks will show up in a RHEL5 guest as > /dev/hda, etc. In newer distros, these disks show up as /dev/sda, etc. > It's just a matter of the RHEL5 stack being older than the hdX -> sdX > change. > > If you want to use scsi disks via virt-install, you can use: > > virt-install --disk ...,bus=scsi > > Though AIUI it's generally considered buggy at the qemu level, and may > even be disabled in RHEL5.4 > > - Cole Is virtio stable and recommended? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
