I've also had this issue. In my case I got round it by formatting the disk as FAT32 and not NTFS.
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:21:32 Laurent Léonard opined: > Le lundi 12 juillet 2010 02:58:11, David Dick a écrit : > > I used to be able to create an WinXP or a W2K3 image using virt-manager. > > > > However, now the installation process goes through to a reboot and > > > > terminates with a message in the virt-manager window saying > > > > -------------------------------- > > > > Booting from Hard Disk... > > > > A disk read error occurred > > Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart > > > > -------------------------------- > > > > This failure does not occur when i create a W2K8 image with the same > > sized disk, and it keeps occurring for WinXP/W2K3 images even if i move > > the image to a physically different device, so i doubt it's an issue > > with my hardware. > > It's a qemu(-kvm) 0.12.x issue, should be fixed with the following patch: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-07/msg00152.html > > > The Details tab in virt-manager informs me that the > > failed image so longer has a CD-ROM drive at all, never mind that the > > drive should show the location of the install disk. Can someone provide > > me with some help to find out whats going wrong? > > It's a virtinst issue, fixed here: http://hg.fedorahosted.org/hg/python- > virtinst/rev/e5ab15cd4c24 _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
