In RHEL6 on AWS, the disk devices show up like this: /dev/xvda In disk.rb, line 56, the Dir.glob does't allow for devices to start with 'xv': Dir.glob('/dev/[vhs]d[a-z]').collect do |d| Therefore local disks don't show up. I believe this is broken for all Xen paravirt guests (xvd\* is the norm), but I have no way to confirm that.