Re: [libvirt] [fedora-virt] Guest can no longer be bootet with libvirt 0.9.6 from virt-preview repo

>>>> I just noticed that once I upgrade to libvirt-0.9.6-1 from the >>>> virt-preview >>>> repo on my Fedora 15 machine I can no longer boot guests that use virtio >>>> disks. I only get "Boot failed: could not read the boot disk". >>>> Removing the disk and re-adding it as IDE drive allows KVM to boot from >>>> the >>>> disk (although the full boot obviously fails due to the hda/vda naming >>>> difference but that's expected). >>>> >>>> After downgrading to libvirt-0.8.8-7 again the problem goes away and the >>>> guest boot fine from virtio disks. >>>>

> > Somewhere around 0.9.4 libvirt switched to use a different method to > indicate from which device to boot. > See http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=c3068d4d2381146ed46051ad... > > I think this causes Seabios to skip using extboot.bin for booting and > to try to directly boot from a disk. > If your Seabios version is too old, it won't support booting from > virtio disks directly. >

The libvirt package should probably be updated to require seabios-bin>= 0.6.2.