Hi,

I generated a VM in virt-manager and that failed to boot. the EFI
firmware didn't see the disk. Starting the VM on the command line I was
able to proceed:

qemu-system-arm -M virt-10.0,usb=off,dump-guest-core=off,acpi=off  -cpu
cortex-a7 -m 1024   -bios /usr/share/AAVMF/AAVMF32_CODE.fd   -drive
file=/dev/mapper/toe-vbanana,format=raw   -cdrom
/var/lib/libvirt/cd/debian-trixie-DI-rc2-armhf-netinst.iso -boot d
-nographic

The installed system als didn't boot in the libvirt VM, but in the
command line VM. I had to strip down the libvirt VM to the bare minimum
of virtual hardware to get the Vm to boot.

Greetings
Marc

Boot method: CD
Image version: debian-trixie-DI-rc2-armhf-netinst.iso 2025-07-05
Date: <Date and time of the install>

Machine: emulated qemu VM on an amd64 host
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>


Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:           [o]
Detect network card:    [o]
Configure network:      [o]
Detect media:           [o]
Load installer modules: [o]
Clock/timezone setup:   [o]
User/password setup:    [o]
Detect hard drives:     [o]
Partition hard drives:  [o]
Install base system:    [o]
Install tasks:          [o]
Install boot loader:    [o]
Overall install:        [o]

Comments/Problems:

libvirt vm resulted in a vm that didnt see the disk in the efi firmware
and thus didnt boot. See above.

Please make sure that any installation logs that you think would
be useful are attached to this report. (You can find them in the
installer system in /var/log/ and later on the installed system
under /var/log/installer.) Please compress large files using gzip.