Bug 700705

Summary: Can not start RHEL 3u9 virtio disk after install kmod-virtio
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Mike Cao <bcao>
Component: virtioAssignee: Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version: 3.9CC: bcao, juzhang, michen, xfu
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Description Mike Cao 2011-04-29 05:53:29 UTC 
Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
host info (intel host):
# uname -r
2.6.32-131.0.7.el6.x86_64
# rpm -q qemu-kvm
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.160.el6.x86_64


guest info :
2.4.21-66.ELsmp

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install RHEL3u9_32 guest with if=ide
CLI:/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S -M rhel6.1.0 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name rhel3 -uuid 250ed76e-5593-2e4f-8557-42d700755855 -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/rhel3.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc -boot c -drive file=/home/rhel3,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=raw,cache=none -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0 -netdev tap,fd=22,id=hostnet0 -device e1000,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:8c:71:d6,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -usb -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -vga cirrus -device intel-hda,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -device hda-duplex,id=sound0-codec0,bus=sound0.0,cad=0 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5
2.in the guest ,install kernel-smp-2.4.21-66.EL.i686.rpm
3.in the guest ,install kmod-virtio-0.1-19.el3.i686.rpm
4.poweroff the guest ,then restart the guest with -if=virtio

Actual results:
it shows disk error ,can not successfully boot up(referring to screendump).

Expected results:


Additional info:
also tried 
#mkinitrd --with=virtio --with=virtio_pci --with=virtio_ring --with=virtio_blk --with=virtio_net -f /boot/initrd-2.4.21-66.smp_mike.img 2.4.21-66.ELsmp 
in the guest ,after restart with if=virtio ,guest kernel panic.
Comment 1 Mike Cao 2011-04-29 05:54:30 UTC 
Created attachment 495714 [details]
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Comment 3 Miroslav Rezanina 2011-04-29 06:09:18 UTC 
Hi,
did you install kvm-virtio in i686 kernel or x86_64 kernel? Can you please check if the device files (/dev/xvd*) are created?
Comment 4 Mike Cao 2011-04-29 06:17:24 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> Hi,
> did you install kvm-virtio in i686 kernel or x86_64 kernel? Can you please
> check if the device files (/dev/xvd*) are created?

I install kmod-virtio-0.1-19.el3.i686.rpm in i686 bit kernel

I did not find /dev/xvd* under /dev.
Comment 5 FuXiangChun 2011-04-29 10:21:23 UTC 
hi,
 according to the following steps, bug can not be reproduced. and guest work well.

1.install one of three kernels and start guest with it.
2.install corresponding virtio drive
3.poweroff guest, and using above kernel restart guest with virtio drive

or

1. install all kernels 
2. select one kernels to start guest and install corresponding virtio drive
3. using above kernel to restart guest with virtio drive

so it is not bug.