+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #594068 +++ Description of problem: Clone of a corresponding bug fixed in RHEL-6... using 'no hardware acceleration' option in qemu (no-kvm) results a situation where vm is stuck on booting from hard drive. when running same vm but using the '-enable-kvm' option, vm boots from hard drive and os is loaded. - qemu process with kvm disabled - vm doesn't boot from hard drive and stuck on 'Booting from Hard disk...' 32322 ? Rl 0:08 /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S -M rhel6.0.0 -cpu qemu64,+cx16,+ssse3,-svm -no-kvm -m 512 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name libvirt-pool-07 -uuid 9362025d-0906-4587-9b0e-0561c25aaa53 -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=monitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/libvirt-pool-07.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=2010-4-20T16:24:49 -boot cn -drive file=/rhev/data-center/606d043c-ef9c-4c6f-848b-5bd89325c78d/d9124e52-d42a-4b0c-8657-523bc5b6733b/images/ad757a3f-bce5-4629-a91d-9d81bef59377/afd1ef06-a03d-4751-9348-2a4c1467f78f,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,boot=on,format=qcow2,serial=29-a91d-9d81bef59377,cache=none -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0 -netdev tap,fd=21,id=hostnet0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=00:1a:4a:23:71:17,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -vnc 0:0,password -k en-us -vga cirrus -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3
Fix built into libvirt-0.8.2-4.el5
Verified this bug PASS on the following build RHEL5.6-Server-20100930.0-x86_64-KVM - kernel-2.6.18-225.el5 - kvm-83-200.el5 - libvirt-0.8.2-6.el5 Test steps: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=594068#c27
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2011-0060.html