Description of problem: After a successful install of Fedora 13 as a guest O/S under KVM, using either virt-manager or virt-install, the virtual machine fails to boot up. The Fedora 13 guest will successfully install files from the ISO image; however, when it attempts to do the first reboot the guest will hang after displaying "Booting from Hard Disk" on the console. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): # cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 13 (Goddard) # uname -a Linux foo.castlepoint.net 2.6.33.5-112.fc13.i686.PAE #1 SMP Thu May 27 02:56:20 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux # yum -v groupinfo Virtualization Group: Virtualization Group-Id: virtualization Setting up Package Sacks pkgsack time: 0.043 Description: These packages provide a virtualization environment. Mandatory Packages: python-virtinst-0.500.2-3.fc13.noarch @updates Default Packages: libvirt-0.7.7-4.fc13.i686 @updates 2:qemu-kvm-0.12.3-8.fc13.i686 @anaconda-InstallationRepo-201005130056.i386 virt-manager-0.8.3-3.fc13.noarch @anaconda-InstallationRepo-201005130056.i386 virt-viewer-0.2.1-1.fc13.i686 @anaconda-InstallationRepo-201005130056.i386 Optional Packages: virt-top-1.0.4-3.fc13.i686 fedora # virsh nodeinfo CPU model: i686 CPU(s): 4 CPU frequency: 2400 MHz CPU socket(s): 1 Core(s) per socket: 4 Thread(s) per core: 1 NUMA cell(s): 1 Memory size: 8265820 kB How reproducible: Constantly Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora 13 as guest O/S from a ISO contained on the local host's hard drive. 2. After the guest O/S completes it's installation, it will reboot. 3. When guest O/S reboots the first time, the console hangs after "Booting from Hard Disk". Actual results: Console hangs after "Booting from Hard Disk". Expected results: Expected to have the guest O/S successfully boot up. Additional info:
Thanks for the report, I think this might be similar to the Windows issue currently preventing boot without going through the CD. Looking at it now.
Some additional follow-up info: 1) I forgot to mention that I was attempting to install Fedora 13 "Minimal Distribution" into the VM and having it fail to do the first reboot, hanging with the message "Booting from Hard Disk" on the console. 2) I tried to attach the IDE CD-ROM, contain the Fedora 13 ISO on the host's hard disk, to the VM. Then, I attempted to boot the VM off the CD-ROM, which partially worked. In this case, the VM would boot off the virtual CD-ROM and when GRUB came up, I told it to boot off the "local" hard-disk (contained in the VM). After pressing enter the VM reported that it could not find a bootable disk. 3) Lastly, I attempted to install Fedora 12 into a VM and had the exact same problem. IOW, during the first reboot the VM hangs at "Booting from Hard Disk".
I'm having the same problem. In my case, I'm using CentOS 5.5 as the guest O/S. It worked fine under Fedora 12. I tried to use the guest O/S that I had been using in Fedora 12 (the same image), and received this error - it hangs after "Booting from Hard Disk." (Right after "Booting from Hard Disk," the console says "GRUB Loading stage2..." That's where it hangs.) I also installed a new CentOS 5.5 guest O/S in Fedora 13 when this older one wouldn't work. The installation went fine, but then I had the same error when I tried to boot it up for the first time. Thanks. [root@turk ~]# uname -a Linux turk.unimatrix001.net 2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jun 11 09:38:12 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [root@turk ~]# virsh nodeinfo CPU model: x86_64 CPU(s): 2 CPU frequency: 2668 MHz CPU socket(s): 1 Core(s) per socket: 2 Thread(s) per core: 1 NUMA cell(s): 1 Memory size: 4046312 kB
If I build a new RHEL 6 b2 VM, as soon as it reboots during the install, it hangs at "Booting from Hard Disk". I can however get it to boot like this from the command line: $ qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=RHEL6b2.img,if=ide -m 512
(In reply to comment #3) > I'm having the same problem. In my case, I'm using CentOS 5.5 as the guest O/S. > It worked fine under Fedora 12. I tried to use the guest O/S that I had been > using in Fedora 12 (the same image), and received this error - it hangs after > "Booting from Hard Disk." (Right after "Booting from Hard Disk," the console > says "GRUB Loading stage2..." That's where it hangs.) I also installed a new > CentOS 5.5 guest O/S in Fedora 13 when this older one wouldn't work. The > installation went fine, but then I had the same error when I tried to boot it > up for the first time. Thanks. > > [root@turk ~]# uname -a > Linux turk.unimatrix001.net 2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jun 11 09:38:12 > UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > [root@turk ~]# virsh nodeinfo > CPU model: x86_64 > CPU(s): 2 > CPU frequency: 2668 MHz > CPU socket(s): 1 > Core(s) per socket: 2 > Thread(s) per core: 1 > NUMA cell(s): 1 > Memory size: 4046312 kB I had a similar problem as Barry on my f13 x86_64 installation I could not get my centos 5.5 guests to boot, believe it got stuck at the same place. And, it started up fine when starting from cmdline using simple commandline parameters. My problem was that i had installed the guest through virt-manager without vt enabled in bios. virt-manager then created a guest with emulator qemu-system-x86_64 instead of qemu-kvm. I then changed emulator manually to qemu-kvm inside xml-file in /etc/libvirt/qemu/<domain>.xml The mistake was that i missed changing first line inside the xml-file: <domain type='qemu'> should be <domain type='kvm'> . After i corrected this, the system now boots. Also, this change is seen in the process listing as an option -enable-kvm vs -no-kvm :P
Thanks Hampus - I think you've likely found the problem. After the issues I had in Fedora 13, I installed CentOS 5, and tried to get first Xen and then KVM working in it. I couldn't get KVM to work until I enabled Virtualization in the BIOS (I happened across a Web page that mentioned enabling in BIOS). Once I did that, everything changed, and options that hadn't appeared in the Virtual Machine Manager suddenly became available. I was able to install a virtual machine in the same way I had done it in Fedora 12, no problems. I think what threw me was that I hadn't had virtualization enabled in the BIOS in Fedora 12, but I could easily get KVM working. And I then didn't think to make the connection between what worked in CentOS and my problems in Fedora. As I mentioned, at present I'm running CentOS, and unfortunately I don't know when I'm going to get a chance to reinstall Fedora 13 to test this. Here is a link describing in more detail how I changed the BIOS: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Dell/Latitude-E6500
I noticed the same problems [ubuntu 10.10 x64 laptop]. However, stopping service qemu-kvm did not stop the kvm process, had to kill it off manually. Restarted KVM and everything is fine. PS: I know this is not RH or FC, but just stumbled on this bug so thought it might be useful to document
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Another possible issue, is on the Rhel 7.3 with minimal and boot from a pxe, it may not choose the boot device, even with the preformatting of disks. You have to manually select it, if thats the case and after install it should install and boot from disk.