Bug 600142

Summary:	can't use virtio driver for 5.5 guest
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Qian Cai <qcai>
Component:	qemu-kvm	Assignee:	Virtualization Maintenance <virt-maint>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0	CC:	amit.shah, khong, mkenneth, virt-maint
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Description Qian Cai 2010-06-04 02:16:39 UTC

Description of problem:
When installed a 5.5 guest under RHEL6 using virtio driver, it did not work,
* it hung here if using it as a boot disk for installation.

Starting SeaBIOS (version pre-0.5.1-669c991)
gPXE (http://etherboot.org) - 00:05.0 C900 PC12.10 PnP BBS PMM3FE0@10 C900

* if boot the guest by replacing successfully installed image from IDE to virtio, the rootfs can't be mounted.

* if adding a new virtio disk to the existing 5.5 guest, it hung after the grub.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.69.el6.x86_64
libvirt-0.8.1-7.el6.x86_64
kernel-2.6.32-31.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. virt-manager installs a 5.5 guest via HTTP using a virtio disk.
  
Actual results:
Installation was blocked at the very beginning.

Expected results:
Install successfully.

Comment 1 Qian Cai 2010-06-04 05:31:36 UTC

The host is a Lenovo X200 laptop with Intel CPU.

Comment 2 Amit Shah 2010-06-04 09:11:23 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 596881 ***