On 08/04/11 20:16, Zdenek Styblik wrote: > On 08/04/11 03:49, Laine Stump wrote: >> On 08/03/2011 01:16 AM, Zdenek Styblik wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm wondering what might be behind qemu-kvm>=0.14 is unable to boot >>> except from PXE and perhaps virtio HDD. >>> >>> I mean, is somebody running qemu-kvm>=0.14 and libvirt-0.9.3/0.9.4 >>> around here, thus is my setup broken? >> >> I had the problem that qemu-kvm-0.14 and libvirt-0.9.3 was unable to >> boot a *virtio* disk (which is exactly the opposite of what you type, >> but just in case that was a typo...). This was because qemu 0.14 was >> advertising (in the help) that bootindex was available, and libvirt saw >> that and told qemu to use it, but the version of seabios on my system >> (Fedora 14, running seabios-0.6.0) was too old to support it, so the >> boot failed. The solution was to add "<bootmenu enable='yes'/>" to the >> guest's config, which forces it to not use bootindex, and thus the guest >> will boot. >> >> -- >> libvir-list mailing list >> libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list > > Laine, > > first of all, thanks. It did solved problem for me with libvirt-0.9.4 > and qemu-kvm-0.15rc1. It is also solution for libvirt-0.9.3+ and > qemu-kvm-0.14+. > > As for booting, I can honestly say whether virtio did boot or did not. > And I have no way how to verify it right now(I have like one VM working > so far in my new dev setup and still fiddling with kickstart). > PXE did and didn't work, CD-ROM didn't, virtio ... I don't know. And > perhaps it doesn't matter, because booting is broken. > Is this "fix"/workaround noted somewhere? If not, it should be. And if > told where/how, I volunteer to note it. > > As for seabios, I don't have one, or do I? I couldn't find it in > packages/files, that's I'm sure of. > Perhaps missing seabios is the problem? > > Zdenek > So I can confirm that booting off VirtIO disk. That is raw+LiLO and as far as finding boot sector and showing up LiLO. Then I'm getting kernel panic due to unable to open root-fs etc. Also booting off PXE works. However SCSI disk doesn't work without "hack" mentioned above. All with qemu-kvm-0.15rc1 and libvirt-0.9.4 without any "hacks". I'm not going to play with lower versions, but I'm confident it's going to be the same +/-. Z. -- Zdenek Styblik email: stybla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx jabber: stybla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list