Hello. I believe I've found a bug in libvirtd but not sure.
Using libvirt-0.8.1 and virtinst-0.500.3 (and virt-manager-0.8.4 and Python
2.6.5 if relevant) on a linux system (kernel 2.6.35-rc4 if relevant)
I ran this virt-install command , which is trying to create a windows2k virt mc
by importing an existing system consisting of a boot-floppy image on a file
(the boot device) and one real disk device on /dev/sdc
virt-install --connect qemu:///system --name=RH7win2k --ram=392 --cpuset=0
--description="win2k on RH7 disk on usb, nat network" --import
--network=network=default --virt-type=kqemu --accelerate --vnc --vncport=5905
--video=cirrus
--disk=/mnt/soltbakp/commonfiles/win2k_boot.floppage,device=floppy
--disk=/dev/sdc,device=disk --os-type=windows --os-variant=win2k
and it fails like so
ERROR internal error unknown boot device 'floppy'
ERROR internal error unknown boot device 'floppy'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/virt-install", line 1033, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/local/bin/virt-install", line 915, in main
start_time, guest.start_install)
File "/usr/local/bin/virt-install", line 957, in do_install
dom = install_func(conscb, progresscb, wait=(not wait))
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 972, in
start_install
return self._do_install(consolecb, meter, removeOld, wait)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 1037,
in _do_install
"install")
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 1021,
in _create_guest
self.domain = self.conn.defineXML(final_xml)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1224, in
defineXML
if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainDefineXML() failed', conn=self)
libvirtError: internal error unknown boot device 'floppy'
but if I repeat the command with just interchanging the order of the floppy and
disk definitions, (so that I am telling it to use the disk as boot device),
then the virt-install works ok as far as setup goes, but of course fails during
boot (and I can then alter the boot order back to what I should be in
virt-manager and it then boots)
Is this a bug? and if so is it already known? (I couldn't find how to
search the archives for this list and don't see it in google)
John Lumby
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