[Qemu-devel] [Bug 551545] Re: PXE netboot not booting localboot from virtio-disk

[Andreas Ntaflos]

Still a problem in Lucid, making automatic installation and deployment
of VMs (using Cobbler or Foreman) pretty much impossible without manual
intervention. This, of course, defeats the whole point of automatic
installation and deployment.

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Title:
  PXE netboot not booting localboot from virtio-disk

Status in QEMU:
  New
Status in “qemu-kvm” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “qemu-kvm” package in Fedora:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: qemu-kvm

  lsb_release -rd
  Description:  Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
  Release:      10.04

  apt-cache policy qemu-kvm
  qemu-kvm:
    Installiert: 0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu3
    Kandidat: 0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu3
    Versions-Tabelle:
   *** 0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu3 0
          500 http://intranet/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  Description of the problem:

  Starting a guest like this:

  vdekvm \
    -m 256M \
    -cpu host \
    -smp 1 \
    -name karmic \
    -boot order=nc \
    -drive file=/dev/vg01/test,if=virtio,boot=on,cache=none \
    -net nic,vlan=0,macaddr=00:2f:8d:b6:cf:d0,model=virtio \
    -net vde,vlan=0,sock=/var/run/vde2/vde0.ctl \
    -watchdog i6300esb \
    -vnc :0 \
    -serial telnet:localhost:23,server,nowait \
    -monitor tcp:127.0.0.1:12000,server,nowait \
    -runas kvmguest

  On "telnet localhost" you can see that the following boot-menu
  appears:

  - Boot Menu -
  =============

  local
  rescue

  It is loaded from this pxelinux.cfg/default file:

  SERIAL 0 9600n8

  DISPLAY boot.txt

  TIMEOUT 120
  DEFAULT local
  PROMPT 1

  LABEL local
        localboot 0

  LABEL rescue
        kernel lucid
        append initrd=lucid-initrd.gz rescue/enable=true -- quiet 
console=ttyS0,9600n8

  
  After the timeout, the guest tries to boot, but fails and reloads the boot 
menu. This is an endless loop, until I break it or choose the rescue menu entry.

  I would expect that it boots from first virtio-disk

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: qemu-kvm 0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-18.27-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-18-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Mar 30 11:40:59 2010
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64
  MachineType: MICRO-STAR INTERANTIONAL CO.,LTD MS-7368
  ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=0d27271c-feaa-40d9-bbbd-baff4ca1d3cc rw init=/bin/bash
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: qemu-kvm
  dmi.bios.date: 10/31/2007
  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: V1.5B2
  dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.board.name: MS-7368
  dmi.board.vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERANTIONAL CO.,LTD
  dmi.board.version: 1.0
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.modalias: 
dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrV1.5B2:bd10/31/2007:svnMICRO-STARINTERANTIONALCO.,LTD:pnMS-7368:pvr1.0:rvnMICRO-STARINTERANTIONALCO.,LTD:rnMS-7368:rvr1.0:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
  dmi.product.name: MS-7368
  dmi.product.version: 1.0
  dmi.sys.vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERANTIONAL CO.,LTD

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