RE: Switching from IDE to virtio_blk [qas Re: [Fedora-xen] Goodbye Xen on RH/Fedora?]

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>]

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.

Cheers,
Mark.