[libvirt] regression in finding boot device

[Laine Stump]

On 06/27/2011 05:50 AM, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 00:21:29 -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
>> (bootindex was showing up as "1" in the log; not knowing anything about
>> how it worked, I decided to try just changing it to "0". That  didn't
>> work. Switching back to the old method *did* work, though.)
>>
>> This system is running qemu-kvm-0.14-7.fc14.x86_64.
>> If you'd like a look at the domain XML, the qemu logs, or access to the
>> machine, just let me know.
> Yeah, sending the domain XML and qemu command line to which it was transformed
> would be great.


Sure. I've attached the XML at the end. Here's the non-working 
commandline (split into multiple lines for readability):

LC_ALL=C PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin HOME=/root USER=laine
LOGNAME=laine QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none
/usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc-0.14 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -smp 
1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1
-name F15 -uuid 5091aadb-136d-56a7-76c8-b829ad934c1a -nodefconfig 
-nodefaults
-chardev 
socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/F15.monitor,server,nowait
-mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc -no-shutdown
-device 
virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x7.0x0
-drive 
file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/F15.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw
-device 
virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x5.0x0,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1
-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
-netdev tap,fd=24,id=hostnet0
-device 
virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:48:27:1d,bus=pci.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x3.0x0
-chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device 
isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0
-usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -vnc 127.0.0.1:1 -vga cirrus
-device AC97,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x4.0x0
-device 
virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x6.0x0

Just for reference, here's the working commandline:

LC_ALL=C PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none
/usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc-0.14 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -smp 
1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1
-name F15 -uuid 5091aadb-136d-56a7-76c8-b829ad934c1a -nodefconfig 
-nodefaults
-chardev 
socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/F15.monitor,server,nowait
-mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc -no-shutdown
-boot c
-device 
virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x7.0x0
-drive 
file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/F15.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,boot=on,format=raw
-device 
virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x5.0x0,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
-netdev tap,fd=27,id=hostnet0 -device 
virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:48:27:1d,bus=pci.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x3.0x0
-chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device 
isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0
-usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -vnc 127.0.0.1:1 -vga cirrus
-device AC97,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x4.0x0
-device 
virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x6.0x0


>   However, since you say you see bootindex=1 (in qemu command
> line I suppose), I think everything should work fine on libvirt side... What
> version of seabios do you have?

The console screen says SeaBIOS is 0.6.0 and rpm -q says 
"seabios-bin-0.6.0-1.fc14.noarch".
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