Hello,
I have some problems with overlay images on a host running centos 6.0
* I have 2 physical hosts, one running centos 5.5, the other running centos 6.0 * I created a virtual linux host with a raw file image centos6.img I can start this vm on both machines. * then I created an overlay of the file image with qemu-img create -b centos6.img -f qcow2 centos6.ovl
when I start the VM from the ovelay on the centos6 machine I get: --- Booting from Hard Disk... Boot failed: not a bootable disk
No bootable device ---
When booting from the raw-image and adding the overlay as second disk I see the following: ========== cut here ========== fdisk -l
Disk /dev/vda: 8598 MB, 8598323200 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1045 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000bb12f
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/vda1 * 1 1046 8395776 83 Linux
Disk /dev/vdb: 0 MB, 262144 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/vdb doesn't contain a valid partition table ========== cut here ==========
As one can see, the overlay image does not have any partition table.
Starting the vm with exactly these images (per nfs-mount) on the centos-5.5 host works properly.
Is my problem an known bug or is it an old feature that has been removed?
Best regards,
Kai Krueger
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