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[jeremy avnet <brainsik+launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Soren Hansen <soren@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > 3. Support for virtio disk. VMbuilder builds VMs with emulated SCSI disks
> which are slower than virtio disks.  I have real-world customers who refuse
> to use KVM guests due to I/O performance issues.
>
> There's no particular reason why this isn't supported.
>

I have this in execscript:

sed -ri 's/(h|s)da/vda/' $target/etc/fstab

Booting with virtio block driver works fine.

.:. jeremy