Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: qemu-kvm
On lucid, I'm PXE booting a VM.
Keyboard input on the VNC console works fine until PXELinux loads, so I
can answer "N" to:
Boot from (N)etwork or (Q)uit? N
just fine, but once PXELinux loads, the VNC console ignores all keyboard
input at the "boot:" prompt. No matter what keystrokes I hit, nothing
happens on the VNC console.
Input on PXELinux's *serial* console works fine. I can boot a target and
keyboard input on the VNC console works fine when the target boots. What
I type on the PXELinux serial console appears in the PXELinux VNC
console. Interestingly, if I request a nonexistent boot target on the
serial console, the VNC console starts accepting keyboard input. For
example:
r...@pxe-244:~# virsh console foo
Connected to domain foo
Escape character is ^]
PXELINUX 3.63 Debian-2008-07-15 Copyright (C) 1994-2008 H. Peter Anvin
boot: a
Could not find kernel image: a
boot:
The VNC console now accepts keyboard input.
I have kvm-pxe installed (obviously, since the VM *does* successfully
load PXELinux). I'm not sure how to troubleshoot this further, or even
if this is a bug in qemu-kvm proper; this is a strange failure mode.
The libvirt domain XML for the VM I'm booting is below. It was created
by a local tool, but using virt-manager(1) to create and PXE boot a VM
exhibits the same behavior.
<domain type='kvm'>
<name>foo</name>
<uuid>c80f27f4-cf2d-2125-9dd5-ca35855bdf42</uuid>
<memory>2097152</memory>
<currentMemory>2097152</currentMemory>
<vcpu>1</vcpu>
<os>
<type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-0.12'>hvm</type>
<boot dev='network'/>
</os>
<features>
<acpi/>
</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='disk'>
<source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/foo.raw'/>
<target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
</disk>
<interface type='bridge'>
<mac address='02:00:00:3d:7c:a5'/>
<source bridge='br0'/>
<target dev='vnet0'/>
<model type='virtio'/>
</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'/>
<video>
<model type='cirrus' vram='9216' heads='1'/>
</video>
</devices>
</domain>
** Affects: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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VNC console doesn't accept keyboard input during PXE boot
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/579596
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