Currently if you try and do: $> qemu-kvm -kernel .. -initrd .. -drive boot=on,if=virtio,file=.. Then you get: A disk image must be given for 'hda' when booting a Linux kernel Just sent a trivial fix upstream, attaching here
Created attachment 304101 [details] 0001-kvm-qemu-Allow-booting-from-extboot-drive-with-ke.patch
Patch looks fine, but unless you feel strongly about it for F9, it's probably not blocker material. And you should be able to commit the patch to devel/ (or any branch) If I do a build for bug 444475, though, I can pull this in then.
Okay, kvm-65-2 building in dist-f9-updates-candidate and dist-f10 Agreed that it's not an F9 blocker - would have added it to F9Blocker otherwise; this isn't going to be an issue for anyone until we have virtio support in virt-install/virt-manager, really Useful for testing F-9 kvm/virtio installs with kickstart, though :) * Tue Apr 29 2008 Mark McLoughlin <markmc> - 65-2 - Fix -kernel with virtio/extboot drives (#444578)
kvm-65-2.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9
glommer: you broke my patch :-) Patch4: %{name}-65-kernel-virtio-boot.patch +Patch4: %{name}-65-cirrus.patch
kvm-65-4.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9
* Tue May 20 2008 Mark McLoughlin <markmc> - 65-4.fc9 - Re-enable patch to fix -kernel with virtio/extboot drives (#444578)