Hi, everyone I'm in trouble about boot order of VM. If anyone know cause of this problem, please let me know.
On following environment, I tried to boot from IDE CD-ROM device without inserting any bootable media, which is expected to fail, but VM was booting up from virtio HDD which was not specified as bootable device. * host : RHEL6.1(x86_64) guest: RHEL6.1(x86_64) * VM has IDE CD-ROM and virtio HDD. * There is no bootable media in IDE CD-ROM. * RHEL6.1 is installed in virtio HDD * Only IDE CD-ROM was spcified as bootable device. * XML configuration of libvirt is below. I tested <boot dev> and <boot order> setting, but both are booting up from virtio HDD. ------------------------------------------------------- [<boot dev> setting version] <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='rhel6.1.0'>hvm</type> <boot dev='cdrom'/> <bootmenu enable='no'/> </os> [<boot order> setting version] <disk type='file' device='cdrom'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/> <boot order='1'/> <readonly/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' unit='0'/> </disk> ------------------------------------------------------- I installed latest qemu-kvm to /usr/local/qemu, and replaced /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm to /user/local/qemu/bin/qemu-system-x86_64, but it was booting up from virtio HDD. On RHEL6.0 host, I tested <boot dev> setting version, VM didn't boot up from virtio HDD. it cannot boot up from CD-ROM. (expected behaviour) I checked qemu-kvm option by ps command, but I think correct -boot or bootindex of -device option is specified. [<boot dev> setting version(RHEL6.1 host)] qemu 9871 1 74 16:22 ? 00:00:25 /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S -M rhel6.1.0 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -smp 8,sockets=8,cores=1,threads=1 -name RHEL6.1-GA -uuid 49703959-f0b0-9864-5788-4bc07028bac4 -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/RHEL6.1-GA.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=readline -rtc base=utc -boot order=d,menu=off -drive file=/work/libvirt/images/RHEL6.1GA_x86_64_full_file.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=qcow2,cache=none,aio=threads -device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0 -drive file=/tmp/not_bootable_image.iso,if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -device virtio-net-pci,vlan=0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:0b:68:82,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -net tap,fd=21,vlan=0,name=hostnet0 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -vga cirrus -device intel-hda,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -device hda-duplex,id=sound0-codec0,bus=sound0.0,cad=0 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6 -> "-boot order=d" is specified [<boot order> setting version(RHEL6.1 host)] qemu 4073 1 23 10:08 ? 00:00:37 /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S -M rhel6.1.0 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -smp 8,sockets=8,cores=1,threads=1 -name RHEL6.1-GA -uuid 49703959-f0b0-9864-5788-4bc07028bac4 -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/RHEL6.1-GA.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=readline -rtc base=utc -drive file=/work/libvirt/images/RHEL6.1GA_x86_64_full_file.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=qcow2,cache=none,aio=threads -device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0 -drive if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0,bootindex=1 -device virtio-net-pci,vlan=0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:0b:68:82,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -net tap,fd=21,vlan=0,name=hostnet0 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -vga cirrus -device intel-hda,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -device hda-duplex,id=sound0-codec0,bus=sound0.0,cad=0 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6 -> "bootindex=1" is specified for IDE CD-ROM device only. Next, I suspected seabios, but it was same version of RHEL6.0 and RHEL6.1. # rpm -q seabios seabios-0.6.1.2-3.el6.x86_64 What causes this problem? -- Minoru Usui <u...@mxm.nes.nec.co.jp>