I have been doing a lot of work with KVM, and bumped into an odd issue when PXE booting a Fedora 10 KVM guest. The installer (anaconda) would progress to the point where it would try to locate and configure the network interface, but would spit out the following error and wait for operator input: [...]
I have been playing with the serial console capabilities that are part of qemu, and noticed the following error when I ran qemu-kvm with the “-curses” option on a Fedora 10 host: $ qemu-kvm -curses qemu-kvm: invalid option — ‘-curses’ The manual page indicates this should be a valid option: -curses Normally, QEMU uses SDL [...]
I created a new KVM host last night, and was greeted with the error “Too many option ROMS” during initialization: $ /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc -m 512 -smp 1 -name kvmnode1 -boot n -drive file=/bits/vms/kvmnode1,if=ide,index=0,boot=on -net nic,macaddr=54:52:00:53:20:00 -net tap,script=/bits/bin/qemu-ifup -serial pty -monitor pty Setting the tunnel interface to up Adding the tunnel interface to br0 [...]
