On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 14:58 +0400, Anton Protopopov wrote:
>         What version of KVM have you got ?  There was one recent
>         release which
>         broke the 'boot=on' parameter.
> I have kvm-85.
>
>         Your XML looks fine - the <boot dev='hd'/> tag should have
>         resulted
>         in the boot=on parameter being used on the first disk. Thus I
>         suspect
>         you have the broken KVM release.
>
>
> So, should we add 'boot=on' to qemu-options.hx in our kvm package?

One thing to bear in mind is that the kvm-XX releases are development
snapshots, not stable releases. There's a good chance things like this
will be broken in any given kvm-XX release.

qemu-kvm-0.10.5 is the latest stable release.

Cheers,
Mark.