On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:24:18PM +0530, Gopalakrishnan Subramanian wrote: > Hi > I am using libvirt and virt-manager to manage and run 2 Fedora 10 > guest operating systems for the sake of installing a Oracle RAC > environment . As part of the process after using the both gues for some > work i felt the nedd to add an additional virtual scsi disk to one of the > hosts. > Trying to start the guest os after adding this scsi virtual disk to the > host fails (see image) . The guest BIOS screen and all comes up fine but > it now seems to be trying to boot from the newly added disk . Fiddling > around with the order of the disks as listed in the xml has not helped > either . Yeah this is a bug in libvirt - its stupidly reordering disks itself. I've got a patch that will be in the next libvirt release http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-August/msg00340.html There's no real workaround before that other than make sure you only use the same type of disk - eg always SCSI, or always VirtIO, but never a mix of both. 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