From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Federico Fissore <federico.fissore@assist-si.it>
Cc: kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: boot=on option fails on win 2k/xp double boot
Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 11:51:03 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090510085103.GE18554@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A06927A.1050306@assist-si.it>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-10 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-09 17:53 boot=on option fails on win 2k/xp double boot Federico Fissore
2009-05-10 5:21 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-05-10 8:38 ` Federico Fissore
2009-05-10 8:51 ` Gleb Natapov [this message]
2009-05-11 9:20 ` Federico Fissore
2009-05-11 9:26 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-05-12 9:47 ` Federico Fissore
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