On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 06:56:37PM +0100, Daniel Huhardeaux wrote:
My start script -which started without any problem my XPHome VM- is:
#!/bin/bash
AUDIO="es1370" VGA="std"
sudo /usr/bin/kvm -localtime -cdrom /dev/scd0 -boot c -hda /media/XP/vdisk.img -hdb /media/XP/vdisk1.img -m 512 -soundhw $AUDIO -vga $VGA\ -net nic,vlan=0 -net vde,vlan=0,sock=/var/run/vde.ctl -usb -smb public -monitor tcp:127.0.0.1:32011,server,nowait &
The XML file for the same VM which fail on boot is:
<domain type='kvm'> <name>XPHome</name> <uuid>26e5de74-0841-c4b3-4cc1-e0df0f93cb31</uuid> <memory>524288</memory> <currentMemory>524288</currentMemory> <vcpu>1</vcpu> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc'>hvm</type> <boot dev='hd'/> </os> <features> <pae/> </features> <clock offset='localtime'/> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>restart</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/bin/kvm</emulator> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <source file='/media/XP/vdisk.img'/> <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> </disk> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <source file='/media/XP/vdisk1.img'/> <target dev='hdb' bus='ide'/> </disk> <disk type='block' device='cdrom'> <source dev='/dev/cdrom'/> <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/> <readonly/> </disk> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='54:52:00:7a:ee:01'/> <source bridge='virbr2'/> </interface> <serial type='pty'> <source path='/dev/pts/6'/> <target port='0'/> </serial> <console type='pty' tty='/dev/pts/6'> <source path='/dev/pts/6'/> <target port='0'/> </console> <input type='tablet' bus='usb'/> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/> <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes' keymap='en-us'/> <sound model='es1370'/> <video> <model type='cirrus' vram='9216' heads='1'/> </video> </devices> </domain>
Can you get the libvirt QEMU args from the log file /var/log/libvirt/qemu/XPHome.log so we can compare them to the args your custom script used. There will probably be some minor difference that's confusing windows Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|