[libvirt-users] Vista guest doesn't start after libvirt upgrade

[Osier Yang]

于 2011年02月22日 08:33, Matthias Meyer 写道:
> Hi,
>
> I've updated my Debian lenny to Debian squeeze last week. So I have now:
>    libvirt 0.8.3-5
>    qemu-kvm 0.12.5+dfsg-3
>    virt-manager 0.8.4-8
>
> Today I try to start my Vista quest again. I am surprised because it won't
> starts. In "/var/log/libvirt/qemu/devel-vista.log" stands "Read failed". The
> Console stays as a black screen after a short SeaBIOS message.
> I tried system recovery too but Vista system recovery identified the Vista
> installation without any errors.
>
> Nearly the same occurs with my Windows7 guest. The logfile seems fine but the
> console present me:
> Starting SeaBIOS (version...)
> Booting from Hard Disk...
> Boot failed: not a bootable disk
> I tried system recovery too and indeed, W7 doesn't found a Windows
> Installation.
>
> linux-dev:~# LANG==C ls -lh --block-size=1M /var/lib/libvirt/images/
> total 90399
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root         root 10000 Feb 12 19:20 devel-CentOS.img
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root         root 10000 Feb 15 20:17 devel-SUSE.img
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root         root 10001 Feb 16 22:55 devel-fedora.img
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root         root 10000 Feb 16 19:23 devel-ubuntu.img
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root         root 12575 Feb  1 07:56 devel-vista.qcow2
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 libvirt-qemu kvm  40961 Feb 21 23:50 devel-vista.qcow2.2del
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root         root  9330 Jan 23 18:03 devel-w7.qcow2
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root         root 10136 Feb 13 20:58 devel-w7.qcow2.2del
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root         root 10241 Feb 22 00:34 devel-xp.qcow2
>
> the *.2del files are the original images which doesn't start. The responding
> files without .2del are restored from a backup.
>
>
> WindowsXP as well as different Linux guests does start and run fine.
>
> There are any experience with this obscurse behavior?

IMHO it's bug of seabios, perhaps you need to ask in qemu-devel for
help.

Regards
Osier