From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Issues booting off virtual SCSI drives in kvm-69
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 14:10:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200805301410.13649.fjwcash@gmail.com> (raw)
Am I missing something simple, or can you only boot off virtual IDE
drives?
I'm running kvm-69 (from the sid repos) on 64-bit Debian Lenny, using the
kvm modules that are part of the kernel 2.6.25 package on Debian.
I can create virtual SCSI drives, boot off a virtual CD-ROM, and install
Debian onto the vSCSI drives. However, I cannot boot off the virtual
SCSI drives following the install.
The VM is being run as:
/usr/bin/kvm -name webmail -daemonize -localtime -usb -usbdevice
tablet -smp 1 -m 2048 -vnc :05 -pidfile /var/run/kvm/webmail.pid -net
nic,macaddr=00:16:3e:00:00:05,model=rtl8139 -net tap,ifname=tap05 -boot
c -drive
index=1,media=disk,if=scsi,file=/dev/mapper/vol0-webmail--storage -drive
index=0,media=disk,if=scsi,file=/dev/mapper/vol0-webmail
And the error message on the virtual console is:
Booting from Hard Disk...
Boot from Hard Disk failed: could not read the boot disk
FATAL: No bootable device
The virtual SCSI drives are configured as:
sda1 100 MB /boot (bootable flag set)
sda2 5 GB /
sda5 50 GB /usr
sda6 50 GB /var
sdb1 100 GB /home
GRUB is installed into the MBR of the first SCSI drive (sda).
I've tried reversing the two -drive options on the commandline, as well as
reversing the index numbers on the commandline.
"info block" in the QEmu monitor shows the drives as being attached, and
in the correct order.
What, if anything, am I missing? Or is this just not possible?
--
Freddie Cash
fjwcash@gmail.com
next reply other threads:[~2008-05-30 21:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-30 21:10 Freddie Cash [this message]
2008-05-30 21:50 ` Issues booting off virtual SCSI drives in kvm-69 Javier Guerra
2008-05-30 22:15 ` Freddie Cash
2008-05-31 1:21 ` [PATCH] qemu: document "boot" option for "drive" flag Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
2008-06-04 10:08 ` Avi Kivity
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