[libvirt] Re: Can't boot guest after adding an IDE storage

[Daniel Veillard]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 05:58:37PM +0530, M. Mohan Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We installed Fedora 11 guest in an emulated SCSI disk using virt-install.
> After the installation the guest was shutdown and additional IDE virtual
> storage was added to the guest.
> 
> When we try to boot the guest from virt-manager, it tries to boot from the
> newly added IDE storage (instead of installed SCSI storage) and fails to
> boot.
> 
> It seems that how the disk devices are sorted is the problem. There is a bug
> opened to track this issue:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507271
> 
> As dicussed in the bugzilla, ideally there should be a 'bootable' flag for
> each storage device. Also virt-manager could another option to specify which
> disk to boot from.

  Yeah, this is getting painful we need to fix this for next release !

Daniel

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