Using Rusty's suggestion I've respun the patch removing the special copy function. I've tested this patch in a guest kernel with and without qemu supplying serial numbers for the block devices and it's working as expected. When qemu supplies serial numbers, the correct value is supplied to /sys/block/vdX/serial and can be used by udev for generating disk/by-id paths (without separate utility). When running without serial number support the path still exists in sysfs but produces no output. Signed-off-by: Ryan Harper <ryanh@xxxxxxxxxx> -- 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