[libvirt-users] boot device

Jiri Denemark jdenemar at redhat.com
Thu Sep 6 09:29:10 UTC 2012


On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 19:22:27 +0530, vivek hari wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to create a guest machine on xen virtualized environment and
> install rhel on it by booting from cdrom.
> I face a issue in booting device. I gave boot order as hd,cdrom. When doing
> maiden installation, it will find nothing in hard disk and boots from cd.
> Once installation is completed and when it boots next time it boots from
> hard disk.  It is the expected behaviour.
> But it fails to boot from hard disk and again boots from cdrom.

Looks like the real issue is that it fails to boot from hard disk.

> I also tried specifying per boot device option. I specified disk image as
> boot order 1 and cd image as boot order 2. But when i power on for the
> first time, it tries to boot from harddisk and finds nothing there and says
> " No bootable device. Going to power off in 30 seconds". But expected is,
> it should boot from cd after trying hard disk.

Xen driver does not support per-device boot configuration. Which means we have
a bug in libvirt because starting such domain should fail immediately because
of this.

Jirka




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