Hi, If you look at the libvirt wiki page:
http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsDisks You see: ``serial If present, this specify serial number of virtual hard drive. For example, it may look as <serial>WD-WMAP9A966149</serial>. Since 0.7.1 '' Where "serial" is not RS232 or anything tty-related it's a "serial number" on a virtio disk. If you look at LP: #604355 here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604335 You see that you cannot successfully run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc" because there is a postinst script inside that package that depends on there being entries under /dev/disk/by-id for the drives to select to offer to have grub2 installed on. Because udev uses disk serial numbers to populate /dev/disk/by-id not setting the serial number is fatal to the operation of the script inside that package. There are probably other reasons for wanting to set the serial number on a virtio block device one but that's my biggest issue. I'll file a formal request via http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/page/BugReporting#Feature_Requests but I wanted to give a quick notification about this. Thanks Ken _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
