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From: "Frank Wall" <fwall@inotronic.de> To: users@ovirt.org Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2013 4:15:57 PM Subject: [Users] Unable to boot from CD-ROM (was: REST API: Change boot device / attach CD-ROM)
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 01:05:00PM +0100, Frank Wall wrote:
<cdroms> <cdrom href="/api/vms/VM-ID/cdroms/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" id="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"> <vm href="/api/vms/VM-ID" id="VM-ID"/> <file id="FreeBSD-8.3-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso"/> </cdrom> </cdroms>
...and the boot device is also changed...
[...] <os type="unassigned"> <boot dev="cdrom"/> </os> [...]
...but the VM won't boot off the CD-ROM device, instead it just boots from the first harddisk. So what am I doing wrong?
OK, the problem is still NOT solved, but I did some further investigation. First, the problem ONLY affects VMs with a bootable harddisk (and an operating system installed). A newly created VM is NOT affected and is able to boot from CD-ROM. Once I install an operating system, the VM will no longer be able to boot from CD-ROM. No matter what is configured as boot device...
There is still only the following workaround to boot from CD-ROM:
The only way I am able to boot from CD-ROM is when using the "Run once" function on the Admin Portal and configure the CD-ROM device/image there (temporarely overwriting my config).
It will NOT work if I configure the CD-ROM device through the REST API or the Admin Portal. Just "Run Once" will do the right thing.
Any idea how to debug this further and get a bugfix/working solution?
oVirt is running fine, except this annoying bug makes it somewhat useless for us.
Hi Frank It seems to me as a bug can you please open a BZ on that with engine + vdsm logs attached. Thanks
Thanks - Frank _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users