Re: [Users] Importing VMs

On 6 February 2012 16:05, Keith Robertson <kroberts(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > On 02/06/2012 09:55 AM, Andrew Dunlop wrote: >> >> On 3 February 2012 13:41, Keith Robertson&lt;kroberts(a)redhat.com&gt;  wrote: >>> >>> > <snip> >> >> I have managed to get my existing KVM onto my node by converting it >> from qcow to raw (using qemu-img convert) then I created a libxml file >> from the arguements I have been using to start the VM with KVM. I then >> used virt-v2v to do the conversion for oVirt and this put everything >> in the correct places in the nfs export storage on my node. This then >> appears without any problems in the VM Import tab for my Export >> storage. I then restored this which was successful. >> However when I run my VM I get past the GRUB OS selection screen then I >> get: >> Loading Linux ... >> >> Aborted. >> >> Any idea why this might be? Could it be a sparce problem? It must be >> something to do with how oVIrt is running the VM as I have checked >> that I can still run my VM using KVM from the nfs_export directory. >> Does oVirt do something strange to the file system? Could it be an IDE >> / VirtIO problem? > > > I'm not familiar with this error and I honestly have no idea what it could > mean.  However, a search of the big brain (google) seems to indicate that it > could be related to a malformed grub.cfg. > I have come to the conclusion it is a problem with my guest not being set up for VirtIO. Will report back once I give it another try.