From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gleb Natapov Subject: Re: boot=on option fails on win 2k/xp double boot Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 11:51:03 +0300 Message-ID: <20090510085103.GE18554@redhat.com> References: <4A05C32E.6070003@assist-si.it> <20090510052108.GC18554@redhat.com> <4A06927A.1050306@assist-si.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: kvm To: Federico Fissore Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:57585 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751095AbZEJIvJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 May 2009 04:51:09 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A06927A.1050306@assist-si.it> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.