Using archlinux as paravirtualized guest

Hello.
I have a ArchLinux virtual machine running on top of qemu-kvm. Now thaht the kernel has some of the virtio modules (virtio_blk and virtio_net), I'm now trying to use this guest with some paravirtualized devices (qemu-kvm -drive file=my_disk.img,if-virtio,boot=on -net nic,model=virtio ...)
I've added those modules to the mkinitcpio.conf and /ec/rc.conf of the guest. But I still can't boot when using the if=virtio for the -drive option, as there is no dev created for the disk.
Any hints on how to boot arch with this paravirtualized disk ?
EDIT: I'm using the kernel26 package from testing
Last edited by slubman (2008-08-10 19:27:22)

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