[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#494592: Bug#494592: virtinst: Unable to boot on CDROM

[Guido Günther]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:14:07PM +0200, Daniel Dehennin wrote:
> Le 5457 Septembre 1993, Guido Günther a envoyé:
> >> I found an Ubuntu bug report for that:
> >> - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kvm/+bug/220463
> >> 
> >> Any plan to solve this issue ?
> > Please give details and logs of your problem. Booting systems from CD
> > works fine here. Set up several machines this way.
> 
> I use the command:
> 
> sudo virt-install --connect qemu:///system --ram 256 -n lenny -f /dev/hati/lenny -w network:default --accelerate --cdrom ~/download/debian/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso --os-type=linux --os-variant=debianLenny --hvm
> 
> The boot on the CDROM gives me:
> 
> === KVM graphic display ===
> Booting from CD-Rom...
> 
> ISOLINUX 3.63 Debian-2008-06-10 Copyright (C) 1994-2008 H. Peter Anvin
> vesamenu.c32 attempted DOS system call
> boot:
> === END ===
> 
> I'm not quite sure if it's a virt-install problem or kvm one but the command
> 
> sudo /usr/bin/kvm -m 256 -smp 1 -name lenny -monitor stdio -boot d \
>     -drive file=/dev/hati/lenny,if=virtio,index=0 \
>     -cdrom /home/dad/download/debian/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso \
>     -net nic,vlan=0 -net tap,script=,vlan=0,ifname=vnet0 -serial pty \
>     -parallel none -k fr
> 
> Works fine :-/
Looks like a kvm problem but please compare this with the kvm call
libvirt is using (either with ps or by looking into libvirt's log file -
it has the verbatim kvm call in it).
 -- Guido