After reserching the NFS lock issue it seems I found the solution on the Debian 11 Bullseye server:
$ sudo systemctl enable rpc-statd Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/nfs-server.service.wants/rpc-statd.service → /lib/systemd/system/rpc-statd.service. $ sudo systemctl start rpc-statd Now, the guest VM on the client has started ... but GRUB isn't seeing the virtual IDE CDROM device. I'd expect to see a second hd device. This is testing GRUB BIOS mode for building various GRUB configs - no OS image just a raw msdos label partitioned MBR with core image and a /boot/ file-system with GRUB modules and a vmlinux. Nothing out of line in the libvirt/qemu log file. I'll dig further -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1948525 Title: Alters Performance options > Cache mode causing start failure To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/1948525/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs