Re: boot=on option fails on win 2k/xp double boot

2009-05-12 Thread Federico Fissore

Gleb Natapov, il 11/05/2009 11:26, ha scritto:

May be you can test it not in production? On another machine. Or
alternatively you can compile only userspace of kvm-84 and run it
with kernel kvm modules available in lenny. Another option would be 
to run kvm-84 with -no-kvm flag.




i've tried on my gentoo but I had some problems. I'll try asap with a fedora

btw the pure kvm support on debian lenny seems good, while libvirt  C. 
suck: I had a Centos 5.3 guest (asterisknow) and network performance 
degraded with time: after 12 hours the guest was unable to connect to 
VoIP phones. Running KVM directly (with plain old rc.local) solved the 
problem.


As said, the whole kvm stack on lenny is old and that maybe the problem.

Thanks for your help and time

Federico


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Re: boot=on option fails on win 2k/xp double boot

2009-05-11 Thread Federico Fissore

Gleb Natapov, il 10/05/2009 10:51, ha scritto:
other info: libvirt version is 0.4.6-10 and kvm is 72. these are what is  
currenntly available with debian lenny



Can you please try non ancient version of KVM? kvm-85?


unfortunately no, since that's the current stable version available with 
debian lenny :(


(btw, the latest available version is 84 on debian experimental !: not 
a version I would like to use on production)


I took it off libvirt and handled it manually with a startup script

thanks all the same

federico


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Re: boot=on option fails on win 2k/xp double boot

2009-05-11 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:20:21AM +0200, Federico Fissore wrote:
 Gleb Natapov, il 10/05/2009 10:51, ha scritto:
 other info: libvirt version is 0.4.6-10 and kvm is 72. these are what 
 is  currenntly available with debian lenny

 Can you please try non ancient version of KVM? kvm-85?

 unfortunately no, since that's the current stable version available with  
 debian lenny :(

 (btw, the latest available version is 84 on debian experimental !: not  
 a version I would like to use on production)

 I took it off libvirt and handled it manually with a startup script

 thanks all the same

May be you can test it not in production? On another machine. Or
alternatively you can compile only userspace of kvm-84 and run it
with kernel kvm modules available in lenny. Another option would be 
to run kvm-84 with -no-kvm flag.

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Re: boot=on option fails on win 2k/xp double boot

2009-05-10 Thread Federico Fissore

Gleb Natapov, il 10/05/2009 07:21, ha scritto:

On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 07:53:50PM +0200, Federico Fissore wrote:
I've a windows (virtual) box with windows xp originally installed and a  
windows 2k lately installed



Are they both installed on the same disk?



yes they are



If I run kvm from the command line for testing purposes everything is  
fine. If I run it with libvirt on the host, I does not boot, complaining  
with an I/O error


the problem arises since libvirt adds boot=on on the first disk

without that option, everything works fine

do you have any hint on this?


libvirt should not add boot=on if interface type is IDE and if disk type
is not IDE then boot is supported only from one disk (the one that has
boot=on).



attached is the xml
the current non-working version uses disk images. but it fails the same 
way when using LVM volumes


other info: libvirt version is 0.4.6-10 and kvm is 72. these are what is 
currenntly available with debian lenny


domain type='kvm'
  namenord_recuperi/name
  uuidac298be5-4c11-e7cd-4093-36c951445d3f/uuid
  memory1048576/memory
  currentMemory1048576/currentMemory
  vcpu1/vcpu
  os
type arch='x86_64' machine='pc'hvm/type
boot dev='hd'/
  /os
  features
pae/
  /features
  clock offset='localtime'/
  on_poweroffdestroy/on_poweroff
  on_rebootrestart/on_reboot
  on_crashrestart/on_crash
  devices
emulator/usr/bin/kvm/emulator
disk type='file' device='disk'
  source file='/DATA/virtual.machines/nr/nr_c.qcow2'/
  target dev='hda' bus='ide'/
/disk
disk type='file' device='disk'
  source file='/DATA/virtual.machines/nr/nr_e.qcow2'/
  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:a4:7e:c0:0b:24'/
  source bridge='br2'/
/interface
input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/
graphics type='vnc' port='5903' autoport='no' listen='192.168.46.20' keymap='it'/
  /devices
/domain


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Re: boot=on option fails on win 2k/xp double boot

2009-05-10 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 10:38:18AM +0200, Federico Fissore wrote:
 Gleb Natapov, il 10/05/2009 07:21, ha scritto:
 On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 07:53:50PM +0200, Federico Fissore wrote:
 I've a windows (virtual) box with windows xp originally installed and 
 a  windows 2k lately installed

 Are they both installed on the same disk?


 yes they are


 If I run kvm from the command line for testing purposes everything is 
  fine. If I run it with libvirt on the host, I does not boot, 
 complaining  with an I/O error

 the problem arises since libvirt adds boot=on on the first disk

 without that option, everything works fine

 do you have any hint on this?

 libvirt should not add boot=on if interface type is IDE and if disk type
 is not IDE then boot is supported only from one disk (the one that has
 boot=on).


 attached is the xml
 the current non-working version uses disk images. but it fails the same  
 way when using LVM volumes

 other info: libvirt version is 0.4.6-10 and kvm is 72. these are what is  
 currenntly available with debian lenny

Can you please try non ancient version of KVM? kvm-85?

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Re: boot=on option fails on win 2k/xp double boot

2009-05-09 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 07:53:50PM +0200, Federico Fissore wrote:
 I've a windows (virtual) box with windows xp originally installed and a  
 windows 2k lately installed

Are they both installed on the same disk?

 If I run kvm from the command line for testing purposes everything is  
 fine. If I run it with libvirt on the host, I does not boot, complaining  
 with an I/O error

 the problem arises since libvirt adds boot=on on the first disk

 without that option, everything works fine

 do you have any hint on this?

libvirt should not add boot=on if interface type is IDE and if disk type
is not IDE then boot is supported only from one disk (the one that has
boot=on).



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