Re: [Xen-users] Vista B2

[Jonathan Ervine <jervine@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 23 June 2006 13:44, Petersson, Mats wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Noniko [mailto:hitumabushi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 23 June 2006 13:35
> > To: Petersson, Mats
> > Cc: Haw-Yuan Yang; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Vista B2
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried Vista B2 in XEN 3.0.2 packaged in SUSE 10.1.
> > Unfortunately, I coundn't boot.
> > It was Vista B2 Japanese. I downloaded it and burnt to DVD by myself.
> > I confirmed the DVD itself booted in the same machine.
> > And the XP in XEN booted in the same SUSE10.1-XEN.
> > The result was: The VM window appeared, virtual BIOS was
> > displayed and
> > freezed after the message "Booting CD-ROM....."
> > I'm now researching on other information.
>
> You may want to try the latest version of Unstable, as there's been a
> few fixes since SuSE 10.1, some of which are only in unstable. Of
> course, since it's not clear what the cause of the problem is, it may
> not help... But if you want to actually get the problem fixed, it's
> probably going to happen in unstable quite a long time before it reaches
> stable/testing.
>
You might also want to try here for the latest XEN releases:
http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?xenpreview

These packages are built for SLES 10, however you should be able to install 
them on SUSE 10.1 as well. I had the SDL window freeze on booting from CD... 
on older versions when testing. Newer versions seem to be better, and I also 
found with the older versions that changing to install from ISO rather than 
physical device would work (once). Then subsequent attempts would freeze 
again, and I could change back to physical device and it would boot... weird 
I know. As I said, the XEN modules from forge.novell.com are a lot better.

As has also been posted to this list, setting the Dom0 memory low also helped 
stability of the Windows DomUs.

Jon

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