Difference between revisions of "stoney cloud: Installation in Qemu\KVM"

Revision as of 11:15, 1 February 2014

The stoney cloud contains drivers needed to run in a virtualized environment, namely Qemu/KVM, but the initial ramdisk does not load them automatically.

Therefore, when booting the installed stoney cloud, one has to edit the kernel commandline:

• press e on the already selected boot line
• use the arrow keys to navigate to the entry starting with kernel /kernel ... and press e again
• append the following to the line: doload=virtio_pci,virtio_blk
• press ESC to exit and then b to boot

This change can be made permanent by logging in as root after the startup and editing the grub configuration:

mount /boot
vim /boot/grub/grub.conf
# now append doload=virtio_pci,virtio_blk to both kernel entries