Hi,

I am having trouble determining if my VM is up or not. Using virsh leads me to believe that the guest OS is not being loaded:

virsh domblkstat guestvm

rd_req 0

rd_bytes 0

wr_req 0

wr_bytes 0

flush_operations 0

rd_total_times 0

wr_total_times 0

flush_total_times 0

The VM state is running when outputting list –all. I think the guest OS is just not booted properly. Trying to bring up a console with virsh console guestvm prints:

Connected to domain guestvm

Escape character is ^]

But then I cannot type anything to the screen  or see any more output.

In my /var/log/libvirt/qemu/domain**/guestvm.log I see no errors. Only the qemu start up command, and a note about redirecting output to console /dev/pts/0.

The VM is a custom built image that has a file system mounted on /dev/vg/guestvm. We have a custom kernel at /var/lib/qemu/bzImage. Running a startup command directly with qemu-system-x86_64 allows me to boot the machine properly and bring up a console using netcat.

The guest does not use grub. I am not sure if something special is needed in my domain configuration to boot the guest inside the VM. Here is my config:

<domain type='qemu'>

  <name>guestvm</name>

  <uuid>1878670e-ee57-4059-8d60-243a1559c2d3</uuid>

  <memory>219200</memory>

  <currentMemory>219200</currentMemory>

  <vcpu>2</vcpu>

  <os>

    <type arch='i686' machine='pc'>hvm</type>

    <kernel>/var/lib/qemu/bzImage<kernel/>

    <boot dev='hd'/>

  </os>

  <devices>

    <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator>

    <disk type='block' device='disk'>

      <source dev='/dev/vg/guestvm'/>

      <target dev='sda'/>

      <readonly/>

    </disk>

    <interface type='network'>

      <source network='default'/>

    </interface>

    <serial type='pty'>

      <target port='0'/>

    </serial>

    <console type='pty'>

      <target type='serial' port='0'/>

    </console>

  </devices>

  <features>

    <acpi/>

  </features>

</domain>

Any ideas what could be happening?

Adam