On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:07:34PM +0400, Anton Protopopov wrote: > Hi, all. > > Can someone tell me how to get boot=on parameter to appear on my kvm > cmdline? What version of KVM have you got ? There was one recent release which broke the 'boot=on' parameter. > I define domain with the following xml > > <domain type="kvm"> > <name>kvm-1</name> > <memory>524288</memory> > <vcpu>1</vcpu> > <os> > <type arch="x86_64" machine="pc">hvm</type> > <boot dev="hd"/> > </os> > <devices> > <emulator>/usr/bin/kvm</emulator> > <graphics type="vnc" port="-1"/> > <disk device="disk" type="file"> > <source file="test.img"/> > <target dev="sda"/> > </disk> > <interface type="bridge"> > <source bridge="breth0"/> > </interface> > </devices> > </domain> > > and get > > /usr/bin/kvm -S -M pc -m 512 -smp 1 -name kvm-1 -uuid > b462e575-4044-146c-193a-9a70523b4258 -monitor pty -no-acpi -boot c -drive > file=test.img,if=scsi,index=0 -net nic,macaddr=52:54:00:09:9b:19,vlan=0 -net > tap,fd=15,vlan=0 -serial none -parallel none -usb > > But I want to get > -drive file=test.img,if=scsi,index=0,boot=on > instead. Your XML looks fine - the <boot dev='hd'/> tag should have resulted in the boot=on parameter being used on the first disk. Thus I suspect you have the broken KVM release. 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