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

[Ruben Kerkhof]

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.

Kind regards,

Ruben