On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 08:19:11AM -0600, John Busch wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a Linux 3.2 VM panicking when trying to boot (HVM) on Xen.
> 
> I think this is related to the virtual storage controller that is presented
> to the VM.
> 
> The qcow2 image runs fine on KVM, but on Xen panics during boot with "VFS:
> Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(0,0)".

Can you run 'virt-manager' with --debug to see what kind of XML it constructs 
pls?

Thanks.
> 
> Both the KVM and Xen hosts are running stock Fedora 23, and virt-manager
> was used to configure both VMs.
> 
> To troubleshoot, I cycled the guest image through every permutation of disk
> type (IDE, SCSI, SATA) using virt-manager on both KVM and Xen.  Please see
> below for a difference between Xen and KVM.
> 
> ---
> 
> On Xen, the guest's boot menu reports the following for each disk type:
> 
> SATA disk:
> lsi 00:02.0 1:0 Drive QEMU QEMU HARDDISK 2.5+
> Guest panics
> 
> SCSI disk:
> lsi 00:02.0 1:0 Drive QEMU QEMU HARDDISK 2.5+
> Guest panics
> 
> IDE disk:
> ata0-0: QEMU HARDDISK ATA-7 Hard-Disk
> Guest panics
> 
> ---
> 
> On KVM, the guest's boot menu reports the following for each disk type:
> 
> SATA disk:
> ACHI/0: QEMU HARDDISK ATA-7 Hard-Disk
> ***Guest works!
> 
> SCSI disk:
> lsi 00:02.0 1:0 Drive QEMU QEMU HARDDISK 2.5+
> Guest panics
> 
> IDE disk:
> ata0-0: QEMU HARDDISK ATA-7 Hard-Disk
> Guest panics
> 
> ---
> 
> Please note the difference in the SATA disk between Xen and KVM.  As far as
> I know, both are using the same version of QEMU.  Does anyone know how to
> get the SATA disk to show up as an ACHI disk (instead of lsi) using
> virt-manager/libvirt on Xen?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> ~Micah

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