Re: [Qemu-devel] Boot order problem

[Gleb Natapov]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 09:51:16AM +0900, Minoru Usui wrote:
> Hi, everyone
> 
> I'm in trouble about boot order of VM.
> If anyone know cause of this problem, please let me know.
> 
The cause of the "problem" is the design. booindex and -boot only
modifies the order in which bios will search for bootable device.
It does not exclude devices from a boot device list.
 
> On following environment, I tried to boot from IDE CD-ROM device 
> without inserting any bootable media, which is expected to fail,
> but VM was booting up from virtio HDD which was not specified as bootable 
> device.
> 
>   * host : RHEL6.1(x86_64)
>     guest: RHEL6.1(x86_64)
>   * VM has IDE CD-ROM and virtio HDD.
>   * There is no bootable media in IDE CD-ROM.
>   * RHEL6.1 is installed in virtio HDD
>   * Only IDE CD-ROM was spcified as bootable device.
>   * XML configuration of libvirt is below.
>     I tested <boot dev> and <boot order> setting,
>     but both are booting up from virtio HDD.
>     -------------------------------------------------------
>     [<boot dev> setting version]
>       <os>
>         <type arch='x86_64' machine='rhel6.1.0'>hvm</type>
>         <boot dev='cdrom'/>
>         <bootmenu enable='no'/>
>       </os>
> 
>     [<boot order> setting version]
>        <disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
>          <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
>          <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/>
>          <boot order='1'/>
>          <readonly/>
>          <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' unit='0'/>
>        </disk>
>     -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I installed latest qemu-kvm to /usr/local/qemu, and replaced
> /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm to /user/local/qemu/bin/qemu-system-x86_64,
> but it was booting up from virtio HDD.
> 
> On RHEL6.0 host, I tested <boot dev> setting version, 
> VM didn't boot up from virtio HDD.
> it cannot boot up from CD-ROM. (expected behaviour)
> 
This is not expected behaviour. Expected behaviour is VM boots from HDD.
The only way I can explain behaviour you describe above is that the bios
you are using for RHEL6.0 rpm does not support booting from virtio HDD.
You can test this but making HDD to be ide and retry your test.

> I checked qemu-kvm option by ps command,
> but I think correct -boot or bootindex of -device option is specified.
> 
> [<boot dev> setting version(RHEL6.1 host)]
> qemu      9871     1 74 16:22 ?        00:00:25 /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S -M 
> rhel6.1.0 -enable-kvm -m 2048
>  -smp 8,sockets=8,cores=1,threads=1 -name RHEL6.1-GA -uuid 
> 49703959-f0b0-9864-5788-4bc07028bac4 -nodefconfig
>  -nodefaults -chardev 
> socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/RHEL6.1-GA.monitor,server,nowait
>  
>  -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=readline -rtc base=utc -boot 
> order=d,menu=off
>  -drive 
> file=/work/libvirt/images/RHEL6.1GA_x86_64_full_file.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=qcow2,cache=none,aio=threads
>  -device 
> virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0
>  -drive 
> file=/tmp/not_bootable_image.iso,if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw
>  -device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0
>  -device 
> virtio-net-pci,vlan=0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:0b:68:82,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -net 
> tap,fd=21,vlan=0,name=hostnet0
>  -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device 
> isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0
>  -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -vga cirrus -device intel-hda,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4
>  -device hda-duplex,id=sound0-codec0,bus=sound0.0,cad=0 -device 
> virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6
> 
>   -> "-boot order=d" is specified
> 
> 
> [<boot order> setting version(RHEL6.1 host)]
> qemu      4073     1 23 10:08 ?        00:00:37 /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S -M 
> rhel6.1.0 -enable-kvm -m 2048
>  -smp 8,sockets=8,cores=1,threads=1 -name RHEL6.1-GA -uuid 
> 49703959-f0b0-9864-5788-4bc07028bac4 -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev 
> socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/RHEL6.1-GA.monitor,server,nowait
>  -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=readline -rtc base=utc -drive 
> file=/work/libvirt/images/RHEL6.1GA_x86_64_full_file.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=qcow2,cache=none,aio=threads
>  -device 
> virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0
>  -drive if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw
>  -device 
> ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0,bootindex=1
>  -device 
> virtio-net-pci,vlan=0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:0b:68:82,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -net 
> tap,fd=21,vlan=0,name=hostnet0
>  -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device 
> isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0
>  -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -vga cirrus -device intel-hda,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4
>  -device hda-duplex,id=sound0-codec0,bus=sound0.0,cad=0 -device 
> virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6
> 
>   -> "bootindex=1" is specified for IDE CD-ROM device only.
> 
> 
> Next, I suspected seabios, but it was same version of RHEL6.0 and RHEL6.1.
> 
>   # rpm -q seabios
>   seabios-0.6.1.2-3.el6.x86_64
> 
This bios supports booting from virtio and when I do the same test as
you, qemu boots from virtio HDD. Try to reinstall seabios rpm.

> What causes this problem?
> -- 
> Minoru Usui <address@hidden>

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                        Gleb.