Hello, I am trying to run SCO unix 5.0.5 with KVM. I have created the Virtual Machine with virt-manager. The installation runs correctly, but when the virtual machine reboots from hard disk, i obtain this message : "FATAL: No bootable device." If i run manually the virtual machine without the suboption "boot=on" in the "-drive" option, the virtual machine boots correctly. Why is "boot=on" preventing my VM to boot ? Is there a way to modify the .xml file for this VM to inform libvirt to not add "boot=on" ? Thanks Jean Michault.
On 09/15/2010 07:32 PM, Jean Michault wrote: <snip>> Why is "boot=on" preventing my VM to boot ?This bit I'm not sure of, but suspect the answer may be in the mailing list archives. Have you tried using the "Search" function in the top right hand corner of the libvirt.org website? It searches the mailing list archives. :)> Is there a way to modify the .xml file for this VM to inform libvirt to > not add "boot=on" ?The libvirt command line utility, virsh, has an "edit" command so you can change XML definitions manually. For example: (to make the connection) $ virsh -c qemu+ssh://myuser at myserver/system Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal. Type: 'help' for help with commands 'quit' to quit virsh # list --all Id Name State ---------------------------------- 1 someguest running virsh # edit someguest (vi launches, with the XML loaded for editing) Does that help? Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift> Thanks > > Jean Michault.
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:32:07AM +0200, Jean Michault wrote:> Hello, > I am trying to run SCO unix 5.0.5 with KVM. > > I have created the Virtual Machine with virt-manager. > The installation runs correctly, but when the virtual machine > reboots from hard disk, i obtain this message : > "FATAL: No bootable device." > > If i run manually the virtual machine without the suboption > "boot=on" in the "-drive" option, the virtual machine boots > correctly. > > Why is "boot=on" preventing my VM to boot ? > > Is there a way to modify the .xml file for this VM to inform libvirt > to not add "boot=on" ?What version of libvirt are you using and what are the qemu-kvm command line. I fixed something like this during the summer but without information about your version and the actual args or XML it's just impossible to answer correctly ! Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel at veillard.com | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/