[fedora-virt] Fedora 13 and Win XP Guest - Boot anomaly

[Cole Robinson]

On 06/12/2010 06:34 AM, Ken Smith wrote:
> Hi, New to the list but not to Linux.
> 
> There has been a discussion on the "Fedora Users" list about an anomaly 
> that's been seen with FC13 64bit and installing XP as a guest.
> 
> It's a standard FC13 installation on a machine with an Intel i7 and 4G Ram.
> 
> When the XP installation finishes the initial text style part of its 
> install process and reboots to run the GUI part of the install process 
> the virtual machine fails to boot it from the virtualised hard disk.
> 
> But if its set to boot from the CD or, in my case, the iso image of a XP 
> install CD and its allowed to time out its initial question "Press any 
> key to boot from CD....." then the virtual machine starts up and 
> completes the XP installation.
> 
> One the installation is finished, similar behaviour is seen to get the 
> XP virtual system to start up. If I change the setting in virt-manager 
> to boot from the Hard Disk image the boot of the VM fails but leaving it 
> set to boot from the install CD allows it to start normally after 
> allowing the initial question to timeout
> 
> I have cc'd Suvayu Ali on this posting as he has also observed similar 
> behaviour.
> 
> The thread on the Fedora Users list is here ->
> 
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/374730.html
> 
> 
> Any suggestions.
> 

It's probably this bug filed against libvirt:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579348

Though it sounds like a qemu/kvm issue. Upstream bug report is here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/586175

No solution yet though.

- Cole