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

[Marco Sinhoreli]

Only to report, this issue isn't happen with virtinst/virt-manager and Xen.

Cheers,

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Daniel Dehennin
<daniel.dehennin at baby-gnu.org> wrote:
> Le 5458 Septembre 1993, Guido Günther a envoyé:
>>> 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).
>
> Ok, the virt-install lauch:
> /usr/bin/kvm -S -M pc -m 256 -smp 1 -name lenny -monitor pty \
>    -no-reboot -boot d -drive file=/dev/hati/lenny,if=ide,index=0 \
>    -drive file=/home/dad/download/debian/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso,if=ide,media=cdrom,index=2,boot=on \
>    -net nic,macaddr=00:16:3e:7d:e0:ee,vlan=0 -net tap,fd=10,script=,vlan=0,ifname=vnet0 \
>    -serial pty -parallel none -usb -vnc 127.0.0.1:0
>
> It seems that booting on cdrom does not works when using -drive to
> declare cdrom :-/
>
> Is it possible to forward the bug report to kvm or do I need to make another?
>
> Regards.
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> Daniel Dehennin
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Marco Sinhoreli