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Unable to start a virtual machine on ubuntu 9.10

Asked by Steve Phariss

I am running an up to date ubuntu 9.10 box. I am trying to boot a virtual image (I have tried Windows XP, Centos 5.4, and backtrack 4 )

I get the following error:
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ata0 master : QEMU HARDDISK ATA-7 HARD-DISK (16384 MBytes)
ata1 master : QEMU DVD-ROM ATAPI-4 CD-Rom/DVD-Rom

Booting from Hard Disk ...
Boot failed: not a bootable disk

FATAL: no bootable device
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My system is an AMD CPU, all sata drives (including the CD) and I get the error whether I tell it to boot from DVD or HD.

Virtual Machine Manager 0.7.0

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applecache(Nolan King) (nolanking) said : 		#1

Hello

Im not a pro in ubuntu but i find that if you dont mount a partition that houses the .vdi images it gives errors. It seems you quite well knowledge in the field of linux so i guess you didnt slip up (no offense meant)

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#2

Do you try:
   1) To install a distribution from a CD-ROM ?
   2) To use a disk image you get from elsewhere ?

In case (1) it seems the DVD is not recognized as a bootable one.
I don't know Qemu, but you have to check if physical or virtual CD-ROM is well defined.

In case (2), it looks like if the image you get is corrupted.

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Steve Phariss (sphariss) said : 		#3

The XP and Centos attempts where from CDs and I tried two different backtrack images and one centos image. none of them recognize the dvd player or hard drive...

I think it might have something to do with the fact that all drives are SATA?????

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#4

I know nothing of Virtual Machine Manager, and I can't run KVM on my computer (I choose the single 4-core processor which doesn't support KVM).
If you need this for your personnal usage, you could switch to VirtualBox.
I use daily this solution, on which I tried a lot of distribution (including RedHat, XP and Seven).

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