On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 13:47 -0500, Dustin Henning wrote:
>  It is probably worth noting that if someone were to run a kernel
> update with a package manager after getting this working (using
> information
> from later posts in this thread), they would need to do a manual
> mkinitrd.

No. If you boot off /dev/vda and update the kernel, mkinitrd will build
an initrd containing the virtio modules.

Well, that may depend if you use mkinitrd or mkinitramfs, and your distribution mkinitramfs or mkinitrd may not be checking which device type he's working on.

Emre