On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:13:46AM -0400, Matty wrote: > I am running a number of KVM guests on a physical machine, and want to > configure the hosts to boot from the network if the internal disk > isn't bootable. After reading through a number of documents, I came > across the following bug report: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472236 > > According to that document (and the libvirt Domain XML format document), > I should be able to configure two boot device statements by adding two > boot tags to the domain configuration: > > <os> > <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc'>hvm</type> > <boot dev='hd'/> > <boot dev='network'/> > </os> > > When I attempt to start a guest with this configuration (I added the > new line using virsh's edit command), I receive the following error: > > virsh # start kvmnode2 > libvir: QEMU error : internal error Failure while reading monitor > startup output: Input/output error > error: Failed to start domain kvmnode2 Pretty sure that's a KVM bug with it overflowing the available option ROM space. The XML syntax you have is correct for libvirt POV and works for me. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list