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

[kashyap]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Clyde E. Kunkel <clydekunkel7734 at cox.net>wrote:

> 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.
>
> okay , I was wondering what could be the problem with my qemu/kvm + f10.
The same F10 ISO I installed with virt-manager(with kvm) and it "just
works".


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