<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Mark McLoughlin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markmc@redhat.com">markmc@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 13:47 -0500, Dustin Henning wrote:<br>
> It is probably worth noting that if someone were to run a kernel<br>
> update with a package manager after getting this working (using<br>
> information<br>
> from later posts in this thread), they would need to do a manual<br>
> mkinitrd.<br>
<br>
</div>No. If you boot off /dev/vda and update the kernel, mkinitrd will build<br>
an initrd containing the virtio modules.</blockquote><div><br></div></div>Well, that may depend if you use mkinitrd or mkinitramfs, and your distribution mkinitramfs or mkinitrd may not be checking which device type he's working on. <br>
<br>Emre<br>