f10 installation using qemu-img/qemu-kvm from the shell

[Clyde E. Kunkel]

On 03/23/2009 10:41 AM, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> On 03/23/2009 10:18 AM, kashyap wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> so has any one seen this weird behaviour, or is it me ?
>>
>> what I'm trying to do : Install an F10 virtual machine via qemu-kvm .
>> (from the shell) . On a lenovo X200 running F10.
>>
>> How : I used the below
>>
>> #sudo qemu-img create -f qcow2 f10.qcow2 10G
>> #sudo qemu-kvm -m 1024 -boot d -cdrom /export/isos/F10-i686-Live.iso
>> -hda f10.qcow2 -localtime
>>
>> Here,I did an install on hard drive, once all the packages are
>> installed, it fails to reboot(the screen blacks out). Now I try to
>> invoke the VM via
>> #sudo qemu-kvm fedora10.qcow2
>>
>> Result : the below error is what I'm thrown.
>>
>> -----------------------------
>> could not detect stabilization, waiting 10 seconds
>>
>> Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while
>>
>> found volume group "volgroup00" using metadata type lvm2
>> unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVo101)
>>
>> mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext3 : no such file or
>> diretory
>> -----------------------------------
>>
>> Other Info:
>> (1) I booted into "single" user mode, and my /etc/fstab says the below
>> ---------------------------------------
>> [root at f10 /]# cat /etc/fstab
>> #
>> # /etc/fstab
>> # Created by anaconda on Mon Mar 23 01:04:38 2009
>> #
>> # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
>> # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or vol_id(8) for
>> more info
>> #
>> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
>> UUID=5d9e7d9a-106a-48fa-a82a-1618a5c47a18 /boot
>> ext3 defaults 1 2
>> tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs
>> defaults 0 0
>> devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
>> sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
>> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
>> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults
>> 0 0
>> ----------------------------------------------
>> (2) KVM version: kvm-74-10.fc10.i386
>>
>> Does anyone see anything weird here??
>>
>> Please let me know if any other information is required.
>>
>>
>> -- kashyap
>>
>
> I believe you have hit the initrd fails to see root=UUID=etc, etc.
> Substitute the actual partition name, i.e.,
>
> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 in the grub.conf kernel line.
>
> The upgrade rpm, then rest of upgrades.
>


Ooops....too fast on my part...you are on F10.  Bad UUID was on F11 
alpha.  Sorry for the noise.