Ubuntu
libvirt package

Unable to boot from CD when the VM has 2 IDE cdrom attached

Bug #776620 reported by Simon Déziel
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
libvirt (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
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Bug Description

Steps to reproduce

1) Create a VM
2) Attach 2 IDE CDROM devices
3) Connect a bootable iso to the first CDROM
4) Make sure the VM will attempt to boot from CD first

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04

$ apt-cache policy libvirt-bin
libvirt-bin:
  Installed: 0.8.8-1ubuntu6
  Candidate: 0.8.8-1ubuntu6
  Version table:
 *** 0.8.8-1ubuntu6 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: libvirt-bin 0.8.8-1ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-9.43-generic 2.6.38.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-9-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 3 11:25:41 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libvirt
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Simon Déziel (sdeziel) wrote :
Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)
Changed in libvirt (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Low
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Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn) wrote :

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Note that as a workaround, you can connect the iso to the second cdrom instead of the first. The qemu command being executed (when cdrom 1 is connected and cdrom 2 is not, and 'boot=cdrom' is specified) is:

/usr/bin/kvm -S -M pc-0.14 -enable-kvm -m 512 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name test -uuid a555c9eb-7b81-0a0e-53ef-1f8b16e33f8d -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/test.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=readline -rtc base=utc -boot order=d,menu=off -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/test.img,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0 -drive file=/home/serge/natty-desktop-amd64.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 -drive if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-0-1,readonly=on,format=raw -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=1,drive=drive-ide0-0-1,id=ide0-0-1 -netdev tap,fd=18,id=hostnet0 -device rtl8139,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:f0:9e:74,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -usb -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -vga cirrus -device AC97,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5

I've tried enabling the boot menu, but 'F12' was not working for me.

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Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn) wrote :

(marking low priority because there is a trivial workaround)

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Simon Déziel (sdeziel) wrote :

@Serge

Thank you very much for the workaround, it works great. Even when 2 bootable CDROM are connected it's the second one that is used to boot. I agree that it's a low priority item.

Thanks,
Simon

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