[fedora-virt] Problem porting winxp vm from F12 to rh el 5.4

[Justin M. Forbes]

On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 11:56 +0100, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to port a windows XP vm created from F12 host to ah rh el
> 5.4 host.
> The hd format is qcow2. I know that it is not supported in rh el,
> reading docs (and probably also in 5.5 it will not be supported).
> I started with virsh dumpxml in F12 and then with virsh create in rh
> el 5.4.
> I had to change the path to qemu-kvm, the "machine=" definition from
> "f13" to "pc" and audio card model from es1370 to ac97 and then I was
> able to create it.
> Starting the vm in rh el 5.4 host I got it stuck at message
> Booting from hd.... 
> 
> 
> The OS was already installed and restarted one time in F12 host...
> If I set to boot from CD and put the Win xp one, then it probably
> recognizes that an xp os is already installed and starts saying
> press any key in 10 seconds to start from cd
> 
> 
> I don't press any key, and it correctly starts the winxp os form
> hd....
> Actually I'm seeing that the same behavior is in place in F12 where I
> forgot to keep of the "boot from cd" option... ;-(
> So it seems a general problem, perhaps about boot sector or something
> else...
> Any clue on this and how to solve the need to keep the winxp cd inside
> to be able to boot?
> 

There is a bug dealing with this 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473154
The fix for Fedora 12 is currently in updates-testing.  In the meantime,
you can either keep any CD in the drive, or remove the CDROM from the
virtual machine config. 

Thanks,
Justin