[virt-tools-list] boot problem

[Laurent Léonard]

Le lundi 27 septembre 2010 14:29:35, David Cure a écrit :
> 		Hello,
> 
> 	I upgrade my libvirt from 0.6.5 to 0.8.1 and virtinst from
> 0.500.0 to 0.500.3 (Debian Lenny Backports).
> 	 Now, when I create KVM vm for Windows 2003 Server guest, I
> can't reboot : Error to read the disk in console (it works fine for
> linux guest). The VM can boot from CD, so I use a CD that just use
> isolinux to boot from first DD, but it's not optimal ;)
> 
> 	Any idea ?
> 
> 	David.

That issue comes from qemu-kvm, not from libvirt or virtinst. qemu-kvm 0.12.x 
is affected by a bug when trying to install an XP/2003 guest (see here: 
http://bugs.debian.org/588739). A patch (backported to 0.12.x stable branch) 
to fix that issue has been introduced in Debian with qemu-kvm 0.12.5+dfsg-2.

You can use qemu-kvm 0.12.5+dfsg-3 from Squeeze, it will fix the issue.

-- 
Laurent Léonard