[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#575628: pxe not working with libvirt 0.7.7 + qemu-kvm 0.12

[Brian Kroth]

Package: libvirt-bin, qemu-kvm
Severity: important

Attempts to PXE boot with these two versions give the following error message:

# virsh start faitest32
error: Failed to start domain faitest32
error: internal error Process exited while reading console log output: char device redirected to /dev/pts/1
Cannot boot from non-existent NIC

From /var/log/libvirt/qemu/faitest32.log:

LC_ALL=C PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin HOME=/local.hd/users/bpkroth USER=root LOGNAME=root QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/bin/kvm -S -M pc-0.12 -cpu qemu32 -enable-kvm -m 512 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name faitest32 -uuid 2b09b863-c3ca-a819-8580-4763a3fdd61d -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=monitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/faitest32.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=monitor,mode=readline -rtc base=utc -boot dnc -drive if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -drive file=/home/vms/images/faitest32/faitest32.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,boot=on,format=raw -device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0 -drive file=/home/vms/images/faitest32/faitest32-2.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk1,format=raw -device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6,drive=drive-virtio-disk1,id=virtio-disk1 -device virtio-net-pci,vlan=0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:a1:90:92,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -net tap,fd=56,vlan=0,name=hostnet0 -chardev pty,id=serial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=serial0 -usb -vnc 0.0.0.0:0,password,tls,x509=/etc/pki/libvirt-vnc -k en-us -vga vmware -device i6300esb,id=watchdog0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7 -watchdog-action reset -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 
char device redirected to /dev/pts/1
Cannot boot from non-existent NIC

# virsh dumpxml faitest32
<domain type='kvm'>
  <name>faitest32</name>
  <uuid>2b09b863-c3ca-a819-8580-4763a3fdd61d</uuid>
  <memory>524288</memory>
  <currentMemory>524288</currentMemory>
  <vcpu>1</vcpu>
  <os>
    <type arch='i686' machine='pc-0.12'>hvm</type>
    <boot dev='cdrom'/>
    <boot dev='network'/>
    <boot dev='hd'/>
  </os>
  <features>
    <acpi/>
    <apic/>
    <pae/>
  </features>
  <clock offset='utc'/>
  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
  <on_crash>restart</on_crash>
  <devices>
    <emulator>/usr/bin/kvm</emulator>
    <disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
      <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/>
      <readonly/>
      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' unit='0'/>
    </disk>
    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
      <source file='/home/vms/images/faitest32/faitest32.img'/>
      <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/>
    </disk>
    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
      <source file='/home/vms/images/faitest32/faitest32-2.img'/>
      <target dev='vdb' bus='virtio'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/>
    </disk>
    <controller type='ide' index='0'>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x1'/>
    </controller>
    <interface type='bridge'>
      <mac address='52:54:00:a1:90:92'/>
      <source bridge='br2'/>
      <model type='virtio'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/>
    </interface>
    <serial type='pty'>
      <target port='0'/>
    </serial>
    <console type='pty'>
      <target port='0'/>
    </console>
    <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
    <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes' listen='0.0.0.0' keymap='en-us'/>
    <video>
      <model type='vmvga' vram='9216' heads='1'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/>
    </video>
    <watchdog model='i6300esb' action='reset'>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0'/>
    </watchdog>
  </devices>
</domain>

This is similar to the following report:
http://www.mail-archive.com/libvir-list@redhat.com/msg21531.html

# dpkg -l | egrep -i 'qemu-kvm|libvirt-bin'
ii  libvirt-bin                         0.7.7-1                     the programs for the libvirt library
ii  qemu-kvm                            0.12.3+dfsg-4               Full virtualization on x86 hardware

Let me know if you need any other info.

Thanks,
Brian
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