[virt-tools-list] Cant boot from CD-Image

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Thu Feb 4 14:11:27 UTC 2010


On 02/04/2010 07:20 AM, Benjamin Bärmann wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I created a vm on ubuntu 9.04 with
> 
> virt-install --force --connect qemu:///system -n testserver -r 512 -f \
> testserver-virtual-disk -s 20 -c openSUSE-10.3-GM-KDE-i386.iso \
> --os-type linux --os-variant sles10 -w bridge:br0 \
> --vnc --noautoconsole
> 
> but the vm gives me the follwing error during boot:
> 
>     Booting from Harddisk ...
>     Boot failed: Not a bootable disk.
> 
>     FATAL: No bootable device
> 
> Of cource i want to boot from the CD-Image, not from the harddisk. But i
> don't know how to achieve this.
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> 

Whats the output when you run the above command with --debug? What is the
output in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/${vmname}.log

- Cole




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