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Bug 895402 - Fail to install windows guest with 'Setup was unable to create a new system partiotion or locate an existing system partition' error
Summary: Fail to install windows guest with 'Setup was unable to create a new system p...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: qemu-kvm
Version: 6.4
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Stefan Hajnoczi
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-01-15 08:03 UTC by Sibiao Luo
Modified: 2013-11-21 06:29 UTC (History)
12 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-11-21 06:29:33 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:1553 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: qemu-kvm security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2013-11-20 21:40:29 UTC

Description Sibiao Luo 2013-01-15 08:03:17 UTC 
Description of problem:
this issue was separated from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=877836#c23
Fail to install win7 64bit guest with the x-data-plane=on using the RPMs v3, with the prompt is 'Setup was unable to create a new system partiotion or locate an existing system partition'.
BTW, 
1.if i use the x-data-plane=off, it can install windows guest successfully.
2.it can install rhel6.4 64bit guest with x-data-plane=on using the RPMs v3 successfully.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
host info:
kernel-2.6.32-348.el6.x86_64
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.345.el6.test.x86_64
guest info:
win7 64bit
virtio-win-1.5.4-1

How reproducible:

qemu-kvm command line:
# /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -M rhel6.4.0 -cpu host -enable-kvm -m 2048 -smp 2,sockets=2,cores=1,threads=1 -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -name data-plane -uuid 990ea161-6b67-47b2-b803-19fb01d30d30 -rtc base=localtime,clock=host,driftfix=slew -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,max_ports=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev socket,id=channel1,path=/tmp/helloworld1,server,nowait -device virtserialport,chardev=channel1,name=com.redhat.rhevm.vdsm,bus=virtio-serial0.0,id=port1 -chardev socket,id=channel2,path=/tmp/helloworld2,server,nowait -device virtserialport,chardev=channel2,name=com.redhat.rhevm.vdsm,bus=virtio-serial0.0,id=port2 -drive file=/home/windows_7_ultimate_sp1_x64.raw,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk,format=raw,cache=none,aio=native,werror=stop,rerror=stop -device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,scsi=off,x-data-plane=on,drive=drive-virtio-disk,id=virtio-disk,bootindex=1 -netdev tap,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,script=/etc/qemu-ifup -device e1000,netdev=hostnet0,id=virtio-net-pci0,mac=BC:96:9D:05:51:EC,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -balloon none -spice port=5931,disable-ticketing -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size=67108864 -boot menu=on -monitor stdio -drive file=/home/en_windows_7_ultimate_with_sp1_x64_dvd_618240.iso,if=none,media=cdrom,format=raw,id=drive-ide0-0-0 -device ide-drive,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bus=ide.0,unit=0,bootindex=0 -drive file=/usr/share/virtio-win/virtio-win-1.5.4.iso,if=none,media=cdrom,format=raw,id=drive-ide1-0-1 -device ide-drive,drive=drive-ide1-0-1,id=ide1-0-1,bus=ide.1,unit=1 -drive file=/usr/share/virtio-win/virtio-win-1.5.4.vfd,if=none,id=drive-fdc0-0-0,readonly=on,format=raw -global isa-fdc.driveA=drive-fdc0-0-0
  
Actual results:
screenshot of detail log for failing to install windows.
attachment 665295 [details] and attachment 665296 [details]

Expected results:
it could install windows guest without any problem.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Stefan Hajnoczi 2013-01-15 13:46:35 UTC 
Please try this build, it includes Windows patches:

https://brewweb.devel.redhat.com/taskinfo?taskID=5273068
Comment 2 Ademar Reis 2013-01-15 14:54:40 UTC 
Hopefully a dupe of Bug 895392. If not, we'll probably have to wait until RHEL6.5 to fix it (unless Stefan has a trivial patch that can be reviewed and included tomorrow, in snapshot 4).
Comment 3 Stefan Hajnoczi 2013-02-04 15:55:46 UTC 
Ping.

Please confirm that the Windows 7 guest is able to install to a x-data-plane=on drive.
Comment 4 Sibiao Luo 2013-02-05 03:18:58 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Please try this build, it includes Windows patches:
> 
> https://brewweb.devel.redhat.com/taskinfo?taskID=5273068
this build (qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.351.el6.test.src.rpm, x86_64) was deleted, so i have to try this issue with the latest version qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.355.el6.x86_64.

host info:
kernel-2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.355.el6.x86_64
guest info:
win7 64bit
virtio-win-1.6.2-1.el6

steps:
the same as comment #0

qemu-kvm command line:
# /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -M rhel6.4.0 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -smp 2,sockets=2,cores=1,threads=1 -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -name data-plane -uuid 990ea161-6b67-47b2-b803-19fb01d30d30 -rtc base=localtime,clock=host,driftfix=slew -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,max_ports=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev socket,id=channel1,path=/tmp/helloworld1,server,nowait -device virtserialport,chardev=channel1,name=com.redhat.rhevm.vdsm,bus=virtio-serial0.0,id=port1 -chardev socket,id=channel2,path=/tmp/helloworld2,server,nowait -device virtserialport,chardev=channel2,name=com.redhat.rhevm.vdsm,bus=virtio-serial0.0,id=port2 -drive file=/home/windows_7_ultimate_sp1_x64.raw,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk,format=raw,cache=none,aio=native,werror=stop,rerror=stop -device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,scsi=off,x-data-plane=on,drive=drive-virtio-disk,id=virtio-disk,bootindex=1 -netdev tap,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,script=/etc/qemu-ifup -device e1000,netdev=hostnet0,id=virtio-net-pci0,mac=BC:96:9D:05:51:EC,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -balloon none -spice port=5931,disable-ticketing -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size=67108864 -boot menu=on -monitor stdio -drive file=/home/en_windows_7_ultimate_with_sp1_x64_dvd_618240.iso,if=none,media=cdrom,format=raw,id=drive-ide0-0-0 -device ide-drive,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bus=ide.0,unit=0,bootindex=0 -drive file=/usr/share/virtio-win/virtio-win-1.6.2.iso,if=none,media=cdrom,format=raw,id=drive-ide1-0-1 -device ide-drive,drive=drive-ide1-0-1,id=ide1-0-1,bus=ide.1,unit=1 -drive file=/usr/share/virtio-win/virtio-win-1.6.2_Win7-Win8-2008-2012.vfd,if=none,id=drive-fdc0-0-0,readonly=on,format=raw -global isa-fdc.driveA=drive-fdc0-0-0

results:
it can install windows guest without any problem with the x-data-plane=on for system disk, no any error, like 'Setup was unable to create a new system partiotion or locate an existing system partition'.
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2013-11-21 06:29:33 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1553.html
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