KVM domain instance fails to start when a SCSI disk is added.
Issue
- The following error message is displayed upon trying to start a KVM domain instance with a SCSI disk added:
Error starting domain internal error process exited while connecting to monitor char device redirected to /dev/pts/0 qemu-kvm -device lsi,id=scsi0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7 Parameter 'driver' expects a driver name Try with argument '?' for a list. Details Traceback (most recent call last) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 878, in run_domain vm.startup() File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 1313, in startup self._backend.create() File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 333, in create if ret == -1 raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self) libvirtError internal error process exited while connecting to monitor char device redirected to /dev/pts/0 qemu-kvm -device lsi,id=scsi0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7 Parameter 'driver' expects a driver name Try with argument '?' for a list.
Environment
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0
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Architecture: x86_64
- Kernel Version: kernel-2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64
- libvirt-0.8.1-27.el6.x86_64
- qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.113.el6.x86_64
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