virt-manager libvirt will not boot the VM from an ntfs raw image my installed packages: emerge -pv virtinst virt-manager libvirt These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] app-emulation/libvirt-0.8.3 USE="libvirtd lvm lxc network nfs nls parted phyp python qemu sasl udev -avahi -caps -debug -iscsi -macvtap -numa -openvz -pcap -policykit (-selinux) -uml -virtualbox -xen" 0 kB [ebuild R ] app-emulation/virtinst-0.500.3 0 kB [ebuild R ] app-emulation/virt-manager-0.8.4-r2 USE="-gnome-keyring -policykit -sasl" 0 kB Error in the VM: Disk Read Error. Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to restart resolve maybe is here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-07/msg00152.html Bug is described here:https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/586175 Reproducible: Always
I've got this queued in the Gentoo updates that make up qemu-kvm-0.12.5-r1. This patch is also in the qemu-kvm-0.13.0_rc0 experimental ebuild.
Fixed in qemu-kvm-0.12.5-r1