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

[Guido Günther]

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 02:15:45PM -0500, Brian Kroth wrote:
> 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
Could you try to add execute this "by hand" and find the offending
option?
 -- Guido