[Users] Importing VMs

[Andrew Dunlop]

On 6 February 2012 17:01, Andrew Dunlop <ajdunlop at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 February 2012 16:05, Keith Robertson <kroberts at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 02/06/2012 09:55 AM, Andrew Dunlop wrote:
>>>
>>> On 3 February 2012 13:41, Keith Robertson<kroberts at redhat.com>  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.
It would appear that there is a problem with some versions of GRUB2
where a VM will fail to boot when KVM is using a non standard -vga
argument. See:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=616487