Hello, I have a virtual machine with a custom build kernel and rhel5 base system. The kernel has virtio support as you can see:
root localhost ~ # uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.39.4 #1 SMP Tue Jan 17 10:07:30 WET 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux root localhost ~ # zgrep -i virtio /proc/config.gz CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK=y CONFIG_VIRTIO_NET=y CONFIG_VIRTIO_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_VIRTIO=y CONFIG_VIRTIO=y CONFIG_VIRTIO_RING=y # CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI is not set CONFIG_VIRTIO_BALLOON=y As you can see we have block and net device builtin (not as a module). root localhost ~ # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440FX - 82441FX PMC [Natoma] (rev 02) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II] 00:01.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II] 00:01.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 USB [Natoma/Triton II] (rev 01) 00:01.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 5446 00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Red Hat, Inc Virtio network device 00:04.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) 00:05.0 SCSI storage controller: Red Hat, Inc Virtio block device 00:06.0 RAM memory: Red Hat, Inc Virtio memory balloon 00:07.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03) The hardware appears ok. root localhost ~ # cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 7 0 355604 loop0 We don't see any vda disk and we should. If i use an ide disk it works fine. root localhost ~ # ifconfig eth1 eth1: error fetching interface information: Device not found We don't see the second network card and we should. I've tried several host machines (centos6, mandriva) and despite using differente kvm versions in the host the end result is the same. Any ideas? Does the virtio_(blk|net) only work as modules and not builtin? Thanks, Nuno Fernandes _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list rhelv5-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
