[fedora-virt] Guest can no longer be bootet with libvirt 0.9.6 from virt-preview repo

[Dennis Jacobfeuerborn]

On 09/28/2011 01:23 PM, Ruben Kerkhof wrote:
> Hey Dennis,
>
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 16:20, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
> <dennisml at conversis.de>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I just noticed that once I upgrade to libvirt-0.9.6-1 from the virt-preview
>> repo on my Fedora 15 machine I can no longer boot guests that use virtio
>> disks. I only get "Boot failed: could not read the boot disk".
>> Removing the disk and re-adding it as IDE drive allows KVM to boot from the
>> disk (although the full boot obviously fails due to the hda/vda naming
>> difference but that's expected).
>>
>> After downgrading to libvirt-0.8.8-7 again the problem goes away and the
>> guest boot fine from virtio disks.
>>
>> Is this a known problem? Do I have to configure something differently to
>> make this work as it should?
>
> What version of Seabios are you using? I believe support for direct
> booting from virtio disks was added only recently.

That can't be right. I've been using only virtio disks for years now and 
never had any problem booting from them.
Also as I mentioned above it is upgrading/downgrading libvirt that 
creates/fixes the issue. I don't touch the installed seabios package at all.

Regards,
   Dennis