KVM - ISO Booting Issue

[OmegaHarvest]

Hi,

I'm trying to boot an ISO of ubuntu 12.10 in a VM I have made using KVM. I'm trying to do all this through the Virtual Machine Manager. I copied the ISO to /var/lib/libvirt/images/ via a local ftp and have attached this to the virtual CD Rom. However, on startup I just see 'Boot Failed: Could not read from CDROM (code 0004).

I couldn't find much about this online which was helpful to me. If anyone has any ideas or needs further info, I would be very grateful for your expertise!

Thanks

[markbl]

It's possibly a permissions issue. You should not need to be manually copying files around in system areas etc. Just follow https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/Installation to install qemu-kvm and then follow https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/VirtManager to boot your ISO.

Here's another useful link http://www.howtogeek.com/117635/how-...nes-on-ubuntu/.

[OmegaHarvest]

Thanks for the response. I got to the bottom of it. There was some issue with my FTP server (FileZilla running on version 8 of that 'other' operating system ) which was corrupting files in some way. I was getting checksum errors when copying files from the same server to my SmoothWall express VM. I used a different FTP server and all was fine. Just for anyone who may stumble across this....