Fixed.
Changing the domain type from qemu to kvm fixes this
On Fri, 13 May 2011, bhasker at unixindia.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am starting up to use libvirt with virsh and virt-install. I used
> virt-install successfully and have a running linux system with raw disk
> exported to the virtual machine as scsi. (the whole of qemu + libvirt +
> virtmanager is compiled and installed on /usr/local from source)
>
> After the virtual OS installation (which succeeds) I am not able to boot
> into the OS from the harddisk. Following are some excerpts from my xml
file.
> Please get back to me if you need any more information
>
>
> <os>
> <type arch='x86_64'
machine='pc-0.14'>hvm</type>
> <boot dev='hd'/>
> <bootmenu enable='yes'/>
> </os>
>
> I also tried removing the boot parametes from <os> and added
> <boot order='1'/> in the scsi disk section. Still I am not
able to use the
> scsi disk to boot (my qemu-system-x86_64 however has the boot=on option)
>
> <disk type='block' device='disk'>
> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
> <source dev='/dev/venkatb1/deb'/>
> <target dev='sda' bus='scsi'/>
> <address type='drive' controller='0'
bus='0' unit='0'/>
> </disk>
>
> I could not find any more information or any posts where someone else had
> faced this issue. I presume I am doing something wrong here.
> Can someone help please ?
>
> thanks
>
>
> Bhasker C V
>
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