Still a problem in Lucid, making automatic installation and deployment of VMs (using Cobbler or Foreman) pretty much impossible without manual intervention. This, of course, defeats the whole point of automatic installation and deployment.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/551545 Title: PXE netboot not booting localboot from virtio-disk Status in QEMU: New Status in “qemu-kvm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “qemu-kvm” package in Fedora: Unknown Bug description: Binary package hint: qemu-kvm lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch) Release: 10.04 apt-cache policy qemu-kvm qemu-kvm: Installiert: 0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu3 Kandidat: 0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu3 Versions-Tabelle: *** 0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu3 0 500 http://intranet/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Description of the problem: Starting a guest like this: vdekvm \ -m 256M \ -cpu host \ -smp 1 \ -name karmic \ -boot order=nc \ -drive file=/dev/vg01/test,if=virtio,boot=on,cache=none \ -net nic,vlan=0,macaddr=00:2f:8d:b6:cf:d0,model=virtio \ -net vde,vlan=0,sock=/var/run/vde2/vde0.ctl \ -watchdog i6300esb \ -vnc :0 \ -serial telnet:localhost:23,server,nowait \ -monitor tcp:127.0.0.1:12000,server,nowait \ -runas kvmguest On "telnet localhost" you can see that the following boot-menu appears: - Boot Menu - ============= local rescue It is loaded from this pxelinux.cfg/default file: SERIAL 0 9600n8 DISPLAY boot.txt TIMEOUT 120 DEFAULT local PROMPT 1 LABEL local localboot 0 LABEL rescue kernel lucid append initrd=lucid-initrd.gz rescue/enable=true -- quiet console=ttyS0,9600n8 After the timeout, the guest tries to boot, but fails and reloads the boot menu. This is an endless loop, until I break it or choose the rescue menu entry. I would expect that it boots from first virtio-disk ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: qemu-kvm 0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-18.27-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-18-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Mar 30 11:40:59 2010 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 MachineType: MICRO-STAR INTERANTIONAL CO.,LTD MS-7368 ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=0d27271c-feaa-40d9-bbbd-baff4ca1d3cc rw init=/bin/bash ProcEnviron: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: qemu-kvm dmi.bios.date: 10/31/2007 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: V1.5B2 dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.board.name: MS-7368 dmi.board.vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERANTIONAL CO.,LTD dmi.board.version: 1.0 dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrV1.5B2:bd10/31/2007:svnMICRO-STARINTERANTIONALCO.,LTD:pnMS-7368:pvr1.0:rvnMICRO-STARINTERANTIONALCO.,LTD:rnMS-7368:rvr1.0:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.: dmi.product.name: MS-7368 dmi.product.version: 1.0 dmi.sys.vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERANTIONAL CO.,LTD To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/551545/+subscriptions
