On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 09:39:34AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > diff --git a/tools/kvm/kvm-run.c b/tools/kvm/kvm-run.c > index 764a242..eb50b6a 100644 > --- a/tools/kvm/kvm-run.c > +++ b/tools/kvm/kvm-run.c > @@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ int kvm_cmd_run(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) > kvm->nrcpus = nrcpus; > > memset(real_cmdline, 0, sizeof(real_cmdline)); > - strcpy(real_cmdline, "notsc noapic noacpi pci=conf1 console=ttyS0 "); > + strcpy(real_cmdline, "notsc noapic noacpi pci=conf1 console=ttyS0 earlyprintk=serial"); I think the space at the end of the string that you delete, squashes the early printk option with the next one (root= in your case), like in the output you show: > [ 0.000000] Command line: notsc noapic noacpi pci=conf1 console=ttyS0 earlyprintk=serialroot=/dev/vda1 rw I mean here ^ Thanks, Rodrigo -- 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