tags 603034 + unreproducible moreinfo thanks > I ran into a bug not allowing me to boot an VM if it uses virtio as HDD-type. > This is also described at [1] and [2]: > >> When trying to boot from virtio disk, only an message: >> Boot failed: could not read the boot disk >> FATAL: No bootable device. >> is displayed. >> >> How reproducible: >> always
This is interesting. I run a few dozens of virtual machines here, all with virtio disk, and experiment alot with it too, but I never had this problem, and don't know anyone had it in #kvm channel either. Please provide complete kvm command line. > I used virt-manager, created a new VM, using debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso > from 2010-11-01, choose Linux/Debian-Squeeze as OS, defaults for everyting > else. It does not matter at this point what did you install into the VM, since it is the (virtual) bios which can't read the disk, before the guest OS or boot sector had a chance to be loaded. [] > Then i had a look at the patch [3] and as far as i can see > it is not even added to debian-experimental (0.13.0+dfsg-1). If it were this issue (as in [3] or [1]), people will be screaming now, since kvm is used a LOT to boot from virtio disks, and the issue you mention really means that it never works, since the "BIOS driver" for virtio disk is corrupt. This particular problem has been fixed long time ago. The patch you mentioned is not applicable neither to 0.12 nor to 0.13 -- code has been fixed a bit differently. What tells you it is not added to debian? > I hope i didnt overlook something, as this is my first bugreport here ;) Well, no problem so far, you're welcome :) /mjt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
