Re: [Libguestfs] Changing a given image from virtio-blk to virtio-scsi

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 06:54:20PM +0300, Yaniv Kaul wrote: > Any idea what 'virt-customize' script I should use to convert from > virtio-blk (vda, vdb...) to virtio-scsi (sda, sdb...) ? You'll find that you have to recreate the initrd, else it won't boot (I'm assuming this is a Linux guest). This is somewhat complicated and involves running some commands from the guest. Here's what virt-v2v does, although virt-v2v is especially complicated because it supports doing this for everything back to RHEL 3(!) You probably only need to run dracut if you only care about modern Fedora & RHEL. https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/v2v/convert_linux.ml... > I've tried naively to convince libvirt to use virtio-scsi and still present > it to the guest as 'vd*' - that didn't work ( Yeah the target dev names in libvirt XML aren't really arbitrary strings. Device names are controlled by the *guest* kernel, nothing to do with the host which just exports one or another PCI device. Rich.

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