<initrd>

Specifies the fully qualified path of the ramdisk image in the host operating system.

Text content

Fully qualified path and file name of the initial ramdisk.

Selected attributes

None.

Usage

Configuring a kernel image file as IPL device

Parent elements

<os>

Child elements

None.

Example

<os>     
    <type arch="s390x" machine="s390-virtio">hvm</type>     
    <kernel>/boot/vmlinuz</kernel>     
    <initrd>/boot/initramfs.img</initrd>     
    <cmdline>printk.time=1</cmdline>
</os>