Hi,
I'm playing with kvm on powerpc (I have LPAR'ed IBM Power5 machine).
I have a couple of disk images which are working perfectly. (I've tested it by deploying it using VIO server with usual dd command directly to LPAR disk)
But when I'm trying to attach same image as qemu (with KVM enabled) disk. VM won't boot. It just stuck on openbios banner.
I have another image with old mac partition table (which is working under qemu)
So I have actually two questions: 1) Is booting from PReP partition (type 0x41) is supported? (PReP just consists raw copy of yaboot binary)
2) When VM have LVM root then it required to have FAT partition (type 0x06) with kernel, initrd, yaboot and its config. Does this scenario supported as well?
Here is usual partition setups I have: non lvm setup: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 8225kB 8193kB primary boot, , , , , , , , , type=41, prep, 2 8225kB 897MB 888MB primary ext3 , , , , , , , , , type=83, ,
lvm setup: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 49.4MB 49.3MB primary fat16 boot, , , , , , , , , type=06, , 2 49.4MB 979MB 929MB primary , , , , , lvm, , , , type=8e, ,
I'll glad to provide additional information or participate in testing in the future.
Thanks in advance, Dinar