Virtio Disks not seen by guest OS

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Hello.

I have just made a fresh install of VE 1.1 (3664)

I have 5 SATA disks installed in the host. The first houses the partitions for Proxmox... and the remaining 4 I would like to expose to a guest OS via virtio.

I configure the VMs config like so:

ostype: l26
memory: 512
onboot: 1
name: OpenFiler-23-x64
ide2: none,media=cdrom
smp: 1
vlan0: rtl8139=8A:04:3D:24:BA:44
bootdisk: scsi0
scsi0: vm-102-disk.qcow2
virtio0: /dev/sdb,media=disk
virtio1: /dev/sdc,media=disk
virtio2: /dev/sdd,media=disk
virtio3: /dev/sde,media=disk


The guest ('Openfiler' which is rPath Linux 2.6.26.8) does not see any disks. (fdisk -l ... dmesg)

Am I doing something wrong? What can I do to diagnose my problem

(Many thanks)
 
davewantsmoore said:
Hello.

I have just made a fresh install of VE 1.1 (3664)

I have 5 SATA disks installed in the host. The first houses the partitions for Proxmox... and the remaining 4 I would like to expose to a guest OS via virtio.

I configure the VMs config like so:

ostype: l26
memory: 512
onboot: 1
name: OpenFiler-23-x64
ide2: none,media=cdrom
smp: 1
vlan0: rtl8139=8A:04:3D:24:BA:44
bootdisk: scsi0
scsi0: vm-102-disk.qcow2
virtio0: /dev/sdb,media=disk
virtio1: /dev/sdc,media=disk
virtio2: /dev/sdd,media=disk
virtio3: /dev/sde,media=disk


The guest ('Openfiler' which is rPath Linux 2.6.26.8) does not see any disks. (fdisk -l ... dmesg)

Am I doing something wrong? What can I do to diagnose my problem

(Many thanks)
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Just tested here (with virtio qcow2 disks) without success. looks like the openfiler kernel does not have the virtio drivers - use scsi instead. I assume you can change this later (when openfiler supports virtio with a newer kernel).
 
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