Boot failed: not a bootable disk, No bootable device

KVM
#1

I am probably being an idiot. I am using KVM and have tried to load both the xml files and libvert files. I get the errors

Boot failed: not a bootable disk No bootable device.

Can someone spot the obvious mistake?

I am trying to load up these files in the virtual file manager

Whonix-Gateway-11.0.0.3.0.libvirt
Whonix-Gateway-11.0.0.3.0.xml
Whonix-Workstation-11.0.0.3.0.libvirt
Whonix-Workstation-11.0.0.3.0.xml

#2

The Gateway and workstation.libvirt is not the actual image, it is a tarball. You need to extract the .qcow2 file (the actual boot image) and the xml files from the libvirt file.

#3

Please follow the install instructions carefully from the KVM wiki link in my post signature.

#4

Thanks a lot. I expect tar files to have an extension such as .tar.gz or .tgz. I know I was missing something obvious. I had only uncompressed the file.

The tar file is now extracting.

#5

I have untar’red the files. The workstation and gateway qcow2 files are a whopping 107GB each. Is that correct?

#6

The images are sparse files meaning they don’t occupy the 100 GB but start as 1.5 GB and can potentially grow up to that size if you fill them up.

#7

Thanks for the clarification. Hopefully my host OS can understand this.