I try to get this running and don't know what I'm doing wrong. I have created an Debian.img (disk in raw format with virtual device manager – gui to libvirt I guess) and installed debian with no troubles. Now I want to get this running with a self compiled kernel. I copied the .config-file from my working (virtual) debian and made no more changes at all. This is what I do:
qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024M -kernel /path/to/bzImage -hda /var/lib/libvirt/images/Debian.img -append "root=/dev/sda1 console=ttyS0" -enable-kvm -nographic
But during boot I always get this error message.
[ 0.195285] Initializing network drop monitor service
[ 0.196177] List of all partitions:
[ 0.196641] No filesystem could mount root, tried:
[ 0.197292] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
[ 0.198355] Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.2.46 #7
[ 0.199055] Call Trace:
[ 0.199386] [<ffffffff81318c30>] ? panic+0x95/0x19e
[ 0.200049] [<ffffffff81680f7d>] ? mount_block_root+0x245/0x271
[ 0.200834] [<ffffffff8168112f>] ? prepare_namespace+0x133/0x169
[ 0.201590] [<ffffffff81680c94>] ? kernel_init+0x14c/0x151
[ 0.202273] [<ffffffff81325a34>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[ 0.203022] [<ffffffff81680b48>] ? start_kernel+0x3c1/0x3c1
[ 0.203716] [<ffffffff81325a30>] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13
What I'm doing wrong? Please someone help. Do I need to pass the -initrd option? I tried this already but had no luck yet.
Best Answer
I figured it out by myself. Some time has passed, but as I recall the solution was to provide an initial ramdisk. This is how I got it working with hardware acceleration.
Compiling
---> see http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Virtio
Enable paravirt in config
Disable NMI watchdog on HOST for using performance counters on GUEST. You may ignore this.
---> see http://kvm.et.redhat.com/page/Guest_PMU
Start in Qemu
Start in KVM
Kernal path: /home/username/compiled_kernel/bzImage
Initrd path: /home/username/compiled_kernel/initrd.img-3.2.46
Kernel arguments: root=/dev/sda1
Hope this helps if someone has the same issues.