After upgrading from F7 kvm-65-15 to F10 kvm-74-10

2009-03-29 Thread Gerry Reno
Hi, We had setup a number of VM's using KVM-65 running on F7 some time ago. We just ocmpleted upgrading a number of hosts to F10 and with that came KVM-74-10. We had some problems after that upgrade. First, none of the VM's would start. After digging around awhile we finally figured out

Re: After upgrading from F7 kvm-65-15 to F10 kvm-74-10

2009-03-29 Thread Gerry Reno
Gerry Reno wrote: Hi, We had setup a number of VM's using KVM-65 running on F7 some time ago. We just ocmpleted upgrading a number of hosts to F10 and with that came KVM-74-10. We had some problems after that upgrade. First, none of the VM's would start. After digging around awhile we

Re: After upgrading from F7 kvm-65-15 to F10 kvm-74-10

2009-03-29 Thread Gerry Reno
Ross McKay wrote: Gerry Reno wrote: [...] After digging around awhile we finally figured out that we had to once again 'chcon -t virt_image_t path_to_image' as we had done back when we first setup the VM's. But what is the proper procedure so that we don't lose the selinux attributes

Re: After upgrading from F7 kvm-65-15 to F10 kvm-74-10

2009-03-29 Thread Gerry Reno
Gerry Reno wrote: Gerry Reno wrote: Hi, We had setup a number of VM's using KVM-65 running on F7 some time ago. We just ocmpleted upgrading a number of hosts to F10 and with that came KVM-74-10. We had some problems after that upgrade. we are having a lot of problems with the dreaded

Re: After upgrading from F7 kvm-65-15 to F10 kvm-74-10

2009-03-29 Thread Gerry Reno
Gerry Reno wrote: So the only problem I'm very concerned about at the moment is the VM that was at the point of first reboot after the successful completion of an F9 install. Any suggestions as to how to get that VM running? In the virtmanager log we see this when we try to start this VM

KVM-74: HELP PLEASE - cannot boot from cdrom for recovery

2009-03-31 Thread Gerry Reno
Today we upgraded one of our VM's from F9 to F10 and after the first reboot we see the dreaded GRUB prompt. This it turns out is a known problem with F10 installs. And the recovery is usually very simple. You boot into rescue mode from CDROM and reinstall the boot loader. The problem we're

Re: KVM-74: HELP PLEASE - cannot boot from cdrom for recovery

2009-03-31 Thread Gerry Reno
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Gerry Reno schrieb: Today we upgraded one of our VM's from F9 to F10 and after the first reboot we see the dreaded GRUB prompt. This it turns out is a known problem with F10 installs. And the recovery is usually very simple. You boot into rescue mode from CDROM

Re: KVM-74: HELP PLEASE - cannot boot from cdrom for recovery

2009-03-31 Thread Gerry Reno
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Gerry Reno schrieb: Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Gerry Reno schrieb: Today we upgraded one of our VM's from F9 to F10 and after the first reboot we see the dreaded GRUB prompt. This it turns out is a known problem with F10 installs. And the recovery is usually very

Re: KVM-74: HELP PLEASE - cannot boot from cdrom for recovery

2009-03-31 Thread Gerry Reno
Charles Duffy wrote: Gerry Reno wrote: What is GUI VMM? virt-manager To get support for kvm proper here, you'll want to use ps to see the command line with which libvirtd is invoking kvm and provide that. /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc -m 512 -smp 2 -name MX_3 -monitor pty -boot c -drive

Re: KVM-74: HELP PLEASE - cannot boot from cdrom for recovery

2009-03-31 Thread Gerry Reno
Charles Duffy wrote: Gerry Reno wrote: Charles Duffy wrote: Gerry Reno wrote: What is GUI VMM? virt-manager To get support for kvm proper here, you'll want to use ps to see the command line with which libvirtd is invoking kvm and provide that. /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc -m 512 -smp 2

Re: KVM-74: HELP PLEASE - cannot boot from cdrom for recovery

2009-03-31 Thread Gerry Reno
Javier Guerra wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Gerry Reno gr...@verizon.net wrote: Charles Duffy wrote: I put the xml stanza in the file and undefine/define domain but it gives an error about cannot read image file. source file=/media/Fedora 10 DVD/ And I check this path and I can

Re: KVM-74: HELP PLEASE - cannot boot from cdrom for recovery

2009-03-31 Thread Gerry Reno
Gerry Reno wrote: Javier Guerra wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Gerry Reno gr...@verizon.net wrote: Charles Duffy wrote: I put the xml stanza in the file and undefine/define domain but it gives an error about cannot read image file. source file=/media/Fedora 10 DVD/ And I check

Re: KVM-74: HELP PLEASE - cannot boot from cdrom for recovery

2009-03-31 Thread Gerry Reno
Gerry Reno wrote: Gerry Reno wrote: Javier Guerra wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Gerry Reno gr...@verizon.net wrote: Charles Duffy wrote: I put the xml stanza in the file and undefine/define domain but it gives an error about cannot read image file. source file=/media/Fedora 10

Re: KVM-74: HELP PLEASE - cannot boot from cdrom for recovery

2009-03-31 Thread Gerry Reno
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Gerry Reno schrieb: Gerry Reno wrote: Gerry Reno wrote: Javier Guerra wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Gerry Reno gr...@verizon.net wrote: Charles Duffy wrote: I put the xml stanza in the file and undefine/define domain but it gives an error about

Re: KVM-74: HELP PLEASE - cannot boot from cdrom for recovery

2009-03-31 Thread Gerry Reno
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Gerry Reno schrieb: What does: md5sum /dev/sr0 output? DVD is Fedora 10 DVD (i386) Four cases: # desktop user; DVD unmounted $ md5sum /dev/sr0 md5sum: /dev/sr0: Input/output error # desktop user; DVD mounted $ md5sum /dev/sr0 ff311b322c894aabc4361c4e270f5a3f

Re: KVM-74: HELP PLEASE - cannot boot from cdrom for recovery

2009-03-31 Thread Gerry Reno
Gerry Reno wrote: Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Gerry Reno schrieb: What does: md5sum /dev/sr0 output? DVD is Fedora 10 DVD (i386) Four cases: # desktop user; DVD unmounted $ md5sum /dev/sr0 md5sum: /dev/sr0: Input/output error # desktop user; DVD mounted $ md5sum /dev/sr0

Re: KVM-74: HELP PLEASE - cannot boot from cdrom for recovery

2009-03-31 Thread Gerry Reno
Gerry Reno wrote: Gerry Reno wrote: Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Gerry Reno schrieb: What does: md5sum /dev/sr0 output? DVD is Fedora 10 DVD (i386) Four cases: # desktop user; DVD unmounted $ md5sum /dev/sr0 md5sum: /dev/sr0: Input/output error # desktop user; DVD mounted $ md5sum /dev

Re: KVM-74: HELP PLEASE - cannot boot from cdrom for recovery

2009-03-31 Thread Gerry Reno
Javier Guerra wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Gerry Reno gr...@verizon.net wrote: Boot Failure Code: 0003 Boot from CDROM failed: cannot read the boot disk. FATAL: No bootable device. your underlying problem is that you can't get libvirt to generate the appropriate command

Re: KVM-74: HELP PLEASE - cannot boot from cdrom for recovery

2009-03-31 Thread Gerry Reno
Javier Guerra wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Gerry Reno gr...@verizon.net wrote: Javier Guerra wrote: your underlying problem is that you can't get libvirt to generate the appropriate command line. you really should take it to the libvirt list Ok, can you give me

Re: KVM-74: HELP PLEASE - cannot boot from cdrom for recovery

2009-03-31 Thread Gerry Reno
Javier Guerra wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Gerry Reno gr...@verizon.net wrote: Ok, I've been working with this for a couple hours but this command line errors on F10 like this: # /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc -m 512 -smp 2 -name MX_3 -monitor pty -boot d -drive file=/var/vm/vm1/qemu

Re: KVM-74: HELP PLEASE - cannot boot from cdrom for recovery

2009-03-31 Thread Gerry Reno
Gerry Reno wrote: Javier Guerra wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Gerry Reno gr...@verizon.net wrote: Ok, I've been working with this for a couple hours but this command line errors on F10 like this: # /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc -m 512 -smp 2 -name MX_3 -monitor pty -boot d -drive

Re: KVM-74: HELP PLEASE - cannot boot from cdrom for recovery

2009-03-31 Thread Gerry Reno
Gerry Reno wrote: Gerry Reno wrote: Javier Guerra wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Gerry Reno gr...@verizon.net wrote: Ok, I've been working with this for a couple hours but this command line errors on F10 like this: # /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc -m 512 -smp 2 -name MX_3 -monitor