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Description of problem: If a KVM guest is booted from a virtio disk, specified with "scsi_controller virtio_blk" in /etc/modprobe.conf, then mkinitrd should make sure virtio_pci is also loaded. The kernel module virtio_blk cannot depend on virtio_pci because it can also work with the alternatives virtio_s390 (for s390 kvm) or virtio_lguest (for lguest). However, RHEL only supports KVM on x86-64, so it would be nice to make it work by default. Steps to Reproduce: 1. install a KVM guest 2. configure the guest to use virtio, both on the host side and with "scsi_controller virtio_blk" in the guest 3. watch the guest fail to boot Expected results: It would be really nice if it just worked. Additional information: mkinitrd by default does not let the initrd rescan the block devices for the LVM VGs, so changing the block device from emulated IDE to virtio will also break a RHEL 5 guest in other ways. I'm filing another bug on that now :)
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Rik, can you be more verbose? With RHEL5.5 and default install on RHEL6 KVM host the guesat is configured to use virtio by default. The modprobe.conf looks like: alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix alias scsi_hostadapter1 virtio_blk and the system boots successfully.
OK, then I guess we fixed the bug between then and now.