[Pkg-libvirt-discuss] libvirt boots from Knoppix-CD but not Debian-CD

[Guido Günther]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 07:45:57AM +0200, Christian Brandt wrote:
> Debian Squeeze, libvirt 0.8.3, qemu-kvm 0.15.5

There's no qemu-kvm 0.15.5 in Debian. Please try the one packaged. I
assume you mean 0.12.5?

> 
> After configuring the cd image the bios screen shows:
> (tested with virsh, virt-install and virt-manager)
> 
> Starting SeaBIOS (version 0.5.1-20110523_174945-brahms)
> 
> Booting from CD-Rom
> 65MB medium found (bzw. whatever size)
> Boot failed: Could not read from CDROM (code 000c)
> ...
> 
> the cd images (debian6-cd1, debian6-netinst, debian6-buisnesscard) have
> the correct md5sum an can be mounted, they simply do not boot. On the
> other hand, a recent knoppix ISO works well. Tested countless times. All
> access rights are 777.
> 
> Only special feature: the host is a minimal installation done with
> debootstrap and contains not much else than libvirt, virt-manager and
> lxterminal.
> 
> I am out of wit. Any ideas?
Please see:

	http://wiki.debian.org/libvirt/Debugging

This looks very much like a problem in QEMU/KVM so please try to
reproduce without libvirt involved.
Cheers,
 -- Guido