[libvirt-users] Disk not bootable from yesterday resolved

[David Mansfield]

David




On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 14:56 -0400, David Mansfield wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 07:29 -0700, David Brown wrote:
> > Just an update and a thanks.
> > 
> > 
> > The not bootable issue I was having yesterday ended up being for some
> > odd reason the disk type in the domain define xml file had been
> > switched to the disk being "raw" rather than qcow2 format.  When I
> > changed:
> > <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
> > to 
> > <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2'/>
> > 
> > It booted without issue.  I'm not clear how that got changed on the 
> > original domain.  It was in use without issue about a week ago. :/
> > 
> > I then ran the clone again and it cloned fine, but had the boot issue
> > again.  I checked the cloned domain.xml file and again it said type
> > raw.  I changed it again to qcow2 and it booted fine.
> > 
> > Bug?  Shouldn't it keep the type in the config the same?
> > 
> > Anyway, thanks for help and especially the quick
> >  responses!
> > 
> 
> I had this exact thing happen to me when I updated my centos 5.5 to
> centos 5.6.  (which goes from libvirt 0.6.something to libvirt
> 0.6.something, and take each with a grain of salt as Red Hat/Centos  may
> ship highly modified versions). 
> 
> I'm not sure if the qcow2 changed to raw in the XML during the update,
> or if the old version "just worked" with raw, but the new version
> doesn't.
> 
> David
> 
> 
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