[Users] EL5 support for VirtIO SCSI?

[Sander Grendelman]

According to https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/20511 virtio
work on > rhel5.3.

You have to edit /etc/modprobe.conf and generate a new initrd.

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Sven Kieske <S.Kieske at mittwald.de> wrote:
> 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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