Using virtio drivers on RHEL6 with OpenShift Virtualization (CNV)
Issue
- RHEL 6.10 guests using virtio block drivers fail to see the vda disk when installing
Environment
- OCP 4.x
- CNV 2.x
General RHEL6 VM is defined:
apiVersion: kubevirt.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualMachine
metadata:
annotations:
kubevirt.io/latest-observed-api-version: v1alpha3
kubevirt.io/storage-observed-api-version: v1alpha3
labels:
kubevirt.io/vm: rhel6.test.example.com
name: rhel6.test.example.com
namespace: rhel6-virtualmachines
spec:
dataVolumeTemplates:
- metadata:
annotations:
kubevirt.io/provisionOnNode: rhel6.test.example.com
creationTimestamp: null
name: local-dv-os
spec:
pvc:
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
resources:
requests:
storage: 100Gi
storageClassName: kubevirt-hostpath-provisioner
source:
blank: {}
status: {}
running: false
template:
metadata:
creationTimestamp: null
labels:
kubevirt.io/vm: rhel6.test.example.com
spec:
domain:
cpu:
cores: 1
model: host-passthrough
sockets: 2
devices:
disks:
- bootOrder: 2
disk:
bus: virtio
name: os-disk
interfaces:
- bootOrder: 1
bridge: {}
macAddress: ea:7f:00:d0:d0:0d
name: vnic0
networkInterfaceMultiqueue: true
features:
acpi:
enabled: true
resources:
requests:
cpu: 1500m
memory: 8Gi
networks:
- multus:
networkName: vlan0
name: vnic0
terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 120
volumes:
- dataVolume:
name: local-dv-os
name: os-disk
status: {}
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