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[Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- On Thu, 11/25/10, 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: Thursday, November 25, 2010, 4:17 AM
> 2010/11/24 Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >>>>> 3. Support for virtio disk.
> >>>> 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".
> 
> Right. We could e.g. just go with grub1 for virtio disks.

I'm not completely certain that grub1 installation works either.

The crux of the matter is that /dev/sda provides /dev/disk/by-id/* files and /dev/vda does not, it only provides /dev/disk/by-uuid/* and /dev/disk/by-path/* files.

The grub installation falls over since it can't find any /dev/disk/by-id/* files