Paravirtualized block device

From KVM
Revision as of 04:08, 17 April 2010 by Freddy77 (talk | contribs)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)

Paravirtualized Block Device

Host side

run kvm with command-line: -drive file=<path_to_your_raw_qemu_img>,if=virtio

you can also specify boot=on in the command-line: -drive file=<path_to_your_raw_qemu_img>,if=virtio,boot=on

Guest side - Linux

sudo modprobe virtio_blk

to have virtio_blk driver, you need to upgrade the kernel to higher than 2.6.25.

refer to Virtio

Guest side - Windows

You can find Windows drivers at Downloads page.

Retrieved from "https://linux-kvm.org/index.php?title=Paravirtualized_block_device&oldid=2951"