On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 10:38:18AM +0200, Federico Fissore wrote: > Gleb Natapov, il 10/05/2009 07:21, ha scritto: >> On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 07:53:50PM +0200, Federico Fissore wrote: >>> I've a windows (virtual) box with windows xp originally installed and >>> a windows 2k lately installed >>> >> Are they both installed on the same disk? > > > yes they are > >> >>> If I run kvm from the command line for testing purposes everything is >>> fine. If I run it with libvirt on the host, I does not boot, >>> complaining with an I/O error >>> >>> the problem arises since libvirt adds boot=on on the first disk >>> >>> without that option, everything works fine >>> >>> do you have any hint on this? >>> >> libvirt should not add boot=on if interface type is IDE and if disk type >> is not IDE then boot is supported only from one disk (the one that has >> boot=on). >> > > attached is the xml > the current non-working version uses disk images. but it fails the same > way when using LVM volumes > > other info: libvirt version is 0.4.6-10 and kvm is 72. these are what is > currenntly available with debian lenny > Can you please try non ancient version of KVM? kvm-85? -- Gleb. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html