In order to prevent the VM to boot *only* by virtual disk during the first boot, setup the boot order to: 1st option: disk; 2nd option: cdrom. This configuration guarantees that the virtual firmware will boot by cdrom after check there is no boot section on default disk. Signed-off-by: Paulo Vital <pvital(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt; --- src/kimchi/vmtemplate.py | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/kimchi/vmtemplate.py b/src/kimchi/vmtemplate.py index 37994c2..999473c 100644 --- a/src/kimchi/vmtemplate.py +++ b/src/kimchi/vmtemplate.py @@ -277,6 +277,8 @@ class VMTemplate(object): <vcpu>%(cpus)s</vcpu> <os> <type arch='%(arch)s'>hvm</type> + <boot dev='hd'/> + <boot dev='cdrom'/> </os> <features> <acpi/>