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[Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- On Wed, 11/24/10, Soren Hansen <soren@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Soren Hansen <soren@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Vmbuilder] VMbuilder Creates Sub-Optimal VMs
> To: "Kenneth Stailey" <kstailey@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: vmbuilder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, November 24, 2010, 4:44 AM
> 2010/11/24 Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >>> 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.
> > So LP #604335 has been fixed?
> 
> Not that I know of?

So because VMbuilder doesn't build on virtio disk it never encounters LP #604335 "grub2 fails to install on virtio disk".  Switching to virtio disk via an execscript after building on emulated SCSI ("sda") also doesn't encounter installing grub on virtio since grub installation happens sooner.

Do grub updates have issues like LP 604335 does?