Hi, To follow up on the issues with kvm-85 and libvirt I discovered the following issue: libvirt detects from the help of qemu which options it can give to qemu. (in this case obviously /usr/kvm/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -help) If you look carefully to the output of the -help of qemu from kvm-84 and kvm-85, you will notice the boot flag to the -drive option has disappeared! Hence letting libvirt believe it isnt allowed to use it, hence the unable to boot error. A small patch which fixes the problem for me, is attached. Met vriendelijke groet, Pauline Middelink -- GPG Key fingerprint = 2D5B 87A7 DDA6 0378 5DEA BD3B 9A50 B416 E2D0 C3C2 For more details look at my website http://www.polyware.nl/~middelink
diff -ur kvm-85/qemu/qemu-options.hx kvm-85a/qemu/qemu-options.hx --- kvm-85/qemu/qemu-options.hx 2009-04-21 11:57:31.000000000 +0200 +++ kvm-85a/qemu/qemu-options.hx 2009-04-24 19:04:50.000000000 +0200 @@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ "-drive [file=file][,if=type][,bus=n][,unit=m][,media=d][,index=i]\n" " [,cyls=c,heads=h,secs=s[,trans=t]][,snapshot=on|off]\n" " [,cache=writethrough|writeback|none][,format=f][,serial=s]\n" + " [,boot=on|off]\n" " use 'file' as a drive image\n") STEXI @item -drive @var{option}[,@var{option}[,@var{option}[,...]]]