| Summary: | can't go on installation from iso if floppy device attached | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Chao Yang <chayang> | ||||
| Component: | qemu-kvm | Assignee: | Virtualization Maintenance <virt-maint> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 6.2 | CC: | chayang, juzhang, michen, mkenneth, virt-maint | ||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2011-08-16 11:12:27 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||
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This issue disappears when I append 'if=none' to floppy, like: "-drive file=/usr/share/virtio-win/virtio-win.vfd,if=none,id=fda,format=raw,cache=none -global isa-fda.driveA=fda". Seems if don't specify the interface in cli, qemu-kvm won't set it to 'none'. Closing as NOTABUG. |
Created attachment 518410 [details] error pops up when go on windows installation Description of problem: Install a windows guest from iso, click "Next" when entering "Where do you want to install Windows?". It claims "Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition. See the Setup log files for more information." Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ]# rpm -q qemu-kvm qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.182.el6.x86_64 # uname -r 2.6.32-188.el6.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: 1. It works fine if install a RHEL system from iso with same cli except for the iso file 2. It works fine if delete floppy option from cli CLI: # /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -M rhel6.2.0 -enable-kvm -m 4096 -smp 4 -name win2k8r2sp1 -uuid `uuidgen` -boot d -drive file=/home/test.img,if=none,id=drive-ide-0-0,media=disk,format=qcow2,cache=none,werror=stop -device ide-drive,drive=drive-ide-0-0,id=ide0-0-0 -net none -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input1 -spice port=9000,disable-ticketing -vga qxl -monitor stdio -balloon none -drive file=/home/en_windows_server_2008_r2_standard_enterprise_datacenter_and_web_with_sp1_x64_dvd_617601.iso,if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device ide-drive,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -drive file=/usr/share/virtio-win/virtio-win.vfd,id=fda,format=raw,cache=none -global isa-fda.driveA=fda