Bug 708887

Summary:	qemu-kvm exits with "Too many boot devices for PC" if boot VM by -boot ncad
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Chao Yang <chayang>
Component:	kvm	Assignee:	Virtualization Maintenance <virt-maint>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	5.7	CC:	gcosta, juzhang, michen, mkenneth, mzhan, virt-maint
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Description Chao Yang 2011-05-30 03:29:37 UTC

Description of problem:
Launch a guest via -boot ncad, qemu-kvm will exit with "Too many boot devices for PC"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kvm-83-235.el5

How reproducible:
100%

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Additional info:
This issue doesn't happen if boot guest with less than 4 boot devices.

Comment 1 Glauber Costa 2011-06-01 22:54:54 UTC

Given we're late in the 5.x schedule, I will close this bug - feel free to reopen if you disagree.

I don't think there is a compelling case to raise this limitation.