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Chapter 28. Troubleshooting

28.1. Identifying available storage and partitions
28.2. Virtualized ethernet devices are not found by networking tools
28.3. Loop device errors
28.4. Failed domain creation caused by a memory shortage
28.5. Wrong kernel image error - using a non kernel-xen kernel in a para-virtualized guest
28.6. Wrong kernel image error - non-PAE kernel on a PAE platform
28.7. Fully-virtualized 64 git guest fails to boot
28.8. Missing localhost entry in /etc/hosts causing virt-manager to fail
28.9. Microcode error during guest boot
28.10. Wrong bridge configured on the guest causing hot plug script timeouts
28.11. Python depreciation warning messages when starting a virtual machine
28.12. Enabling Intel® VT and AMD-V virtualization hardware extensions in BIOS
This chapter covers common problems and solutions with Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtualization.

28.1. Identifying available storage and partitions

Verify the block driver is loaded and the devices and partitions are available to the guest. This can be done by executing "cat /proc/partitions" as seen below.
# cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks   name 
 202    16  104857600  xvdb
   3     0    8175688  hda