[Users] EL5 support for VirtIO SCSI?

[Sven Kieske]

Hi,

afaik the rhel 5 kernel series just has not the necessary drivers for
all virtio stuff, so it's not supported and does not work, unless
you want to patch your own kernel.

Am 13.11.2013 06:44, schrieb Paul Jansen:
> I have just set up an Ovirt 3.3.0 install and have done a test install of Centos 6.4 in a VM.  The VM was configured with an IDE drive and a virtio-scsi drive.  The Centos 6.4 install sees both drives OK.
> I'm wanting to do some testing on a product that is based on EL5, but I'm finding that it cannot see the virtio-scsi drive.  It does show up in the output of 'lspci', but I don't see a corresponding 'sd' device.
> 
> I've just tried installing Centos 5.10 and the support is not there.
> 
> Does anyone know of any tricks to allow EL5 to see the virtio-scsi device?


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