[libvirt-users] virt-clone: clone not bootable

[Whit Blauvelt]

David,

How exactly are you invoking it? And when you say "it says," which "it"?
There's more than one way to start a VM. Which are you using?

All we have to go by is your command to virt-clone - which was correct and
works for a great many people - and your observation that your cloned VM
wouldn't boot. Since the problem's most likely not in virt-clone, we'll need
more details on the rest of your procedure to have any chance of spotting
where the problem is.

Whit

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 06:19:51PM -0400, David Brown wrote:
> It says: 
> booting from hard disk
> Booting failed device not bootable
> FATAL: failed to boot from device.
> 
> Or something very similar. 
> 
> Whit Blauvelt <whit.virt at transpect.com> wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 01:45:23PM -0700, David Brown wrote:
> >>    The clone was made with the following command: virt-clone -o centos -n     
> >>    centosclone -f /path/to/new/image.img                                      
> >>    I've attempted it several times and get the same result.                   
> >>    Has anyone seen this or know how to resolve it?                            
> >
> >I've often cloned CentOS 5.5 KVM VMs with that same invocation, and no
> >problem.
> >
> >When you say it's "not bootable," what exactly do you see at time of
> >failure?
> >
> >Whit