Package: src:linux Version: 3.6.9-1~experimental.1 Severity: normal The virtio 9p filesystem uses a "mount tag" to distinguish between multiple filesystems provided to the guest. The host can provide these via the mount_tag=$NAME parameter to kvm's -virtfs option, and the guest supplies the mount tag as the device name to mount. This works fine for non-root filesystems. However, when attempting to use a virtio 9p filesystem as the root filesystem (with rootfstype=9p), the kernel ignores the "root=$NAME" option on the kernel command line, and always uses "/dev/root" as the mount tag. Making matters worse, kvm itself doesn't currently accept "/dev/root" as a mount tag, or anything else with a '/' in it (separate bug filed for that). Hacking kvm to accept /dev/root allows this to work, but the kernel really should use the name passed to the root= option as the mount tag.
- Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.6-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages linux-image-3.6-trunk-amd64 depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.48 ii initramfs-tools [linux-initramfs-tool] 0.109 ii kmod 9-2 ii linux-base 3.5 ii module-init-tools 9-2 Versions of packages linux-image-3.6-trunk-amd64 recommends: pn firmware-linux-free <none> Versions of packages linux-image-3.6-trunk-amd64 suggests: pn debian-kernel-handbook <none> ii grub-pc 1.99-23.1 pn linux-doc-3.6 <none> Versions of packages linux-image-3.6-trunk-amd64 is related to: pn firmware-atheros <none> pn firmware-bnx2 <none> pn firmware-bnx2x <none> pn firmware-brcm80211 <none> pn firmware-intelwimax <none> pn firmware-ipw2x00 <none> pn firmware-ivtv <none> ii firmware-iwlwifi 0.36 pn firmware-libertas <none> pn firmware-linux <none> pn firmware-linux-nonfree <none> pn firmware-myricom <none> pn firmware-netxen <none> pn firmware-qlogic <none> ii firmware-ralink 0.33 pn firmware-realtek <none> pn xen-hypervisor <none> -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
