Re: KVM

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> writes:

> On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 06:46 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> writes:
>> 
>> > On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 09:39 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>> >
>> >> b) The domU systems should be indistinguishable from normal systems - 
>> >> using D-I is one way to ensure this.
>> >
>> > I'm afraid I don't have any helpful suggestions about your current
>> > issues. However I am working on ensuring that Lenny D-I works out of the
>> > box on Xen so things should get better with time.
>> >
>> > Ian.
>> 
>> Would it be also possible to provide kvm support? Specifically support
>> for the virtio backend drivers that are way faster.
>
> Certainly it would be possible -- in fact it might already work, but I
> suspect that a patch to partman is probably needed at a minimum.
>
> Ian.

When I tried it it couldn't find the disks. I assumed the kvm backend
modules aren't included in the ramdisk or too old.

I guess I have to build my own D-I image with 2.6.25 and see if that
already solves it.


Concerning partman: Does it need patches to recognice /dev/vdX and
/dev/vdXY? Doesn't is use /proc/partitions or /sys/block/?

MfG
        Goswin