On Sat, 28 Jun 2008, Avi Kivity wrote:
qemu provides -kernel and -initrd flags for this; however I don't know if virt-manager supports this.
So with kvm i am still using qemu?
I find that a kernel+initrd inside the guest disk image is much more maintainable; for example 'yum update kernel' will update your guest kernel rather than having to copy files around.
I find it much easier to mount fs images, then to go hunt for offset's for mount in disk images. Also, during the xen2->xen3 and the non-PAE to PAE migrations, I liked my kernel and initrd separately :)
Paul