Unable to start ubuntu hardy server guest os with kvm

[Jingguo Yao]

Binary package hint: kvm

I have installed an ubuntu hardy server with virt-manager on ubuntu 10.04 desktop host. The guest os is rebooted after the installation. But, the guest os can't be started up. The following message is shown in console.

Starting SeaBIOS
Booting from Hard disk
GRUB loading stage1.5
grub loading, please wait....

The same problem is also reported in comment 7 in http://www.ideyatech.com/2010/05/virtualization-with-ubuntu-1004-lucid-lynx/.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: firefox 3.6.8+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.41-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 22 12:36:18 2010
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 3.6.8+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.8+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 firefox-branding 3.6.8+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 abroswer N/A
 abrowser-branding N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately, we can't fix it because your description didn't include enough information. You may find it helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively" http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem. We have instructions on debugging some types of problems at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures.
At a minimum, we need:
1. the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem,
2. the behavior you expected, and
3. the behavior you actually encountered (in as much detail as possible).
Thanks!

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport, either via the appropriate application's "Help -> Report a Problem" menu or using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

[Arie Skliarouk (skliarie)]

Same problem, under ubuntu 10.10 (maverick) when installed ubuntu intrepid 8.10 as a guest.

[Arie Skliarouk (skliarie)]

Solved for me - my problem was that I did not reboot the physical machine after installing kvm+libvirt packages and thus the virtual machine was running QEMU software virtualization and not HW-based KVM one.

Apparently QEMU has some issues with the SeaBIOS, which prevents int13 to operate properly.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for kvm (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]