Booting Container Linux in CentOS failed as 'virtio-9p-pci' is not a valid device model name

[Jovi Zhangwei]

Hi guys,

I tried to boot Container Linux on my machine, but I failed whatever use libvirt and qemu by following below instructions.

The error report showed there don't have 9p installed in my CentOS machines, that seems corrects because all CentOS distribution never build 9p.

My question is: does 9p is mandatory to boot Container Linux? All I want is just boot the coreos system easily.

https://coreos.com/os/docs/latest/booting-with-libvirt.html

https://coreos.com/os/docs/latest/booting-with-qemu.html

$sudo ./coreos_production_qemu.sh -nographic

qemu-system-x86_64: -device virtio-9p-pci,fsdev=conf,mount_tag=config-2: 'virtio-9p-pci' is not a valid device model name

$sudo virt-install --connect qemu:///system --import --name coreos1 --ram 1024 --vcpus 1 --os-type=linux --os-variant=virtio26 --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/coreos/coreos1.qcow2,format=qcow2,bus=virtio --filesystem /var/lib/libvirt/images/coreos/coreos1/,config-2,type=mount,mode=squash --network bridge=virbr0,mac=52:54:00:fe:b3:c0 --vnc --noautoconsole

Starting install...

ERROR    internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2017-02-10T09:12:19.215381Z qemu-kvm: -device virtio-9p-pci,id=fs0,fsdev=fsdev-fs0,mount_tag=config-2,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3: 'virtio-9p-pci' is not a valid device model name

[paul...@coreos.com]

Hi Jovi,

I cross posted this to the issue tracker, to give your question more visibility.

https://github.com/coreos/bugs/issues/1805

Cheers.