+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1420869 +++

Description of problem:
when creating a new VM with more than one virtio-scsi disks the vm does not boot.
at first he tries to boot from pxe, a couple of minutes you see no bootable device in the console.

One disk is marked as bootable, and the disk is bootable. changing the boot disk to virtio fixes the problem.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.1.0.4-1.el7.centos

the problem already exist in verion 4.0

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a new vm
2. attach e.g. the ubuntu xenial cloud image and mark it as bootable, use virtio-scsi
3. create and attach a blank virtio-scsi disk

Actual results:
the machine does not find a bootable disk

Expected results:
the vm finds and boot from disk

Additional info:

--- Additional comment from Tomas Jelinek on 2017-02-10 02:47:21 EST ---

can you please provide engine and vdsm logs?

--- Additional comment from Stefan Wandl on 2017-02-10 04:15 EST ---

teh related machine is named test2, i have only added those vdsm logs which are somehow related to the test2 vm. The vm was created at 2017-02-09 11:31

--- Additional comment from Tomas Jelinek on 2017-02-17 06:19:26 EST ---

Hi Stefan,

I was not able to simulate this nor I have found anything suspicious in the logs, so I need to ask some questions:

- please make sure that in the boot options of the VM the Hard Disk is the first (edit vm -> boot options)
- please make sure in Resource Allocation tab the "VirtIO-SCSI Enabled" checkbox is checked
- if you have both, please try to run the VM as "run once" and in "Boot Options" check the "Enable menu to select boot device" checkbox and also the "Start in Pause Mode". This makes the VM pause at the very beginning. Connect the console to it and unpause it and enter the boot menu (press ESC in the SPICE window). And let us know what is listed there.

Thank you.

--- Additional comment from Stefan Wandl on 2017-02-17 09:51 EST ---

screenshot of the boot problem after disk selection from the boot menu

--- Additional comment from Stefan Wandl on 2017-02-17 09:58:51 EST ---

Hi Tomas,

VirtIO-SCSI is enabled
Hard Disk is the first in boot options (i did not touch this value)

it does not matter if the disks are in one storage domain or different one.
i tried to create a new vm with one attached disk (ubuntu cloud image and one created disk) and created a new vm from template (the template has identical settings) with no difference

I have tested it on oVirt 4.0 and 4.1 (different installations)


could it be somehow connected with the naming of the disk?

BR
Stefan

--- Additional comment from Tomas Jelinek on 2017-02-22 06:32:51 EST ---

I was trying with various setups with various disks and Im still unable to simulate this...

but still, there are two options:
1: either engine sends the wrong boot order, or
2: some issue with the lower layers

To check a bit more the first:
When looking at the logs I see only attempts with two virtio scsi disks. Could you please provide for comparision an engine log when only one bootable disk is there so the VM boots properly and one where there are two so it does not?

To check a bit more the second:
Please provide for both runs (with one disk and with two) the output of 
virsh -r dumpxml <vm name> 
from the host when the VM is running.

Also please attach the libvirt and qemu logs (I don't expect much there, but...)

Thank you
Tomas

--- Additional comment from Stefan Wandl on 2017-02-22 10:34 EST ---

virsh dumpxml, enginelog and qemu log

--- Additional comment from Stefan Wandl on 2017-02-22 10:44:17 EST ---

Hi Tomas,

this time it was quite hard to reproduce the problem so you will find a lot of entries in the logs with the same machine names. In the end i was "successfull".

here are the timestamps:

2017-02-22 14:47:26
copy root disk finished

2017-02-22 14:48:13
create new vm called testboot with attached root disk and an newly create log 


2017-02-22 14:51:43
clone machine testboot2

2017-02-22 14:52:28,026
"run once" testboot2 -> machine is booting
"run once" testboot -> machine is NOT booting


As far as i can see the problem appears whenever the boot disk is not on scsi scsi0-0-0-0. I have double checked the results with my 3 disk template and got the same result: whenever the boot disk is on scsi0-0-0-0 it is booting.

Stefan

--- Additional comment from Tomas Jelinek on 2017-02-23 08:07:30 EST ---

So, to determine which disk is the boot we have 2 "flags":
1: the "isBoot" flag on disk
2: the "bootOrder" on device

If the disk (attachment) has isBoot==true (in engine DB) we send "index=0" to VDSM.
If it's device has bootOrder > 0 (in engine DB) we send the "bootOrder=N" to the VDSM.
(simplifying here, but more or less...)

so, what I see in the logs:
-------------------------------------------------------
testboot2:
the boot image ID is 74766bda-8c9c-4c61-aa9b-149da942c9df because:

- The isBoot is true for it since the logs contain:
Bootable disk '74766bda-8c9c-4c61-aa9b-149da942c9df' set to index '0'

- The bootOrder == 1 since we send bootOrder=1

e.g. the for this VM the boot disk is the 74766bda-8c9c-4c61-aa9b-149da942c9df and it is correctly configured on both device and disk (attachment).
-------------------------------------------------------
testboot:
the boot image ID is 5c1c497a-20f2-49b9-a961-dae95516a411 because:

- The isBoot is true for it since the logs contain:
Bootable disk '5c1c497a-20f2-49b9-a961-dae95516a411f' set to index '0'

- The bootOrder == 1 since we send bootOrder=1

e.g. the for this VM the boot disk is the 5c1c497a-20f2-49b9-a961-dae95516a411 and it is correctly configured on both device and disk (attachment).
-------------------------------------------------------

So, long story short, it really looks like for this two VMs you have different disks configured as boot disks while from one the VM boots properly and from the other not.
Can you please double check in the VM main tab -> pick VM -> check the disks sub tab which disk is configured as bootable? For testboot and testboot2 it should be different disks (at least this is what the logs are telling me).

--- Additional comment from Stefan Wandl on 2017-02-23 08:23:18 EST ---

double checked: the larger disks with 10GB and the alias "root" have the OS(isbootable) flag set

--- Additional comment from Tomas Jelinek on 2017-03-02 08:45:44 EST ---

@Karen:
it seems that if you have more virtio-scsi disks than the bootindex is ignored and always the one which is on scsi0-0-0-0 is booting. Do you know if there is some limitation or bug around this in qemu?

--- Additional comment from Karen Noel on 2017-03-02 09:51:54 EST ---

(In reply to Tomas Jelinek from comment #11)
> @Karen:
> it seems that if you have more virtio-scsi disks than the bootindex is
> ignored and always the one which is on scsi0-0-0-0 is booting. Do you know
> if there is some limitation or bug around this in qemu?

Paolo?

--- Additional comment from Tomas Jelinek on 2017-03-14 05:43:00 EDT ---

Hey Paolo, any news?