Bug 444155 - mkinitrd: support booting from KVM virtio devices
Summary: mkinitrd: support booting from KVM virtio devices
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mkinitrd
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-04-25 14:21 UTC by Mark McLoughlin
Modified: 2009-06-10 07:50 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-06-10 07:50:47 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
0001-mkinitrd-handle-KVM-virtio-devices.patch (1.01 KB, patch)
2008-04-25 14:21 UTC, Mark McLoughlin
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Description Mark McLoughlin 2008-04-25 14:21:01 UTC
If you run kvm-qemu with e.g. --drive if=virtio,boot=on,file=foo.img then the
guest must use the KVM virtio drivers to mount the root device.

KVM exposes its virtio devices to the guest over PCI, requiring the guest to use
the virtio_pci driver for device enumeration. The actual block device driver is
virtio_blk.

Currently, if you boot using virtio and then try and create new initrd, the
initrd will include virtio_blk, but not virtio_net.

virtio_blk is to virtio_pci as standard disk drives is to the core PCI code, and
as virtio_blk is to lguest's device enumeration code and as xen_blkfront is to
xenbus.

Where virtio_pci differs from the others, though, is that it's a module and not
built in.

Comment 1 Mark McLoughlin 2008-04-25 14:21:01 UTC
Created attachment 303790 [details]
0001-mkinitrd-handle-KVM-virtio-devices.patch

Comment 2 Mark McLoughlin 2008-04-25 14:38:41 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)

> Currently, if you boot using virtio and then try and create new initrd, the
> initrd will include virtio_blk, but not virtio_net.

... "but not virtio_pci" is what I meant

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2008-04-25 15:27:23 UTC
Applied and building for F9

Comment 4 Mark McLoughlin 2008-04-25 17:26:44 UTC
Just to be sure, I tried a kvm virtio install without this fix and it failed to
boot after the install because virtio_pci wasn't loaded

Tried again with the fix and it works fine


Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 10:09:26 UTC
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
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Comment 7 Mark McLoughlin 2009-06-10 07:50:47 UTC
Long since fixed


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