Re: [Xen-users] HVM success reports required for wiki

[Ben Sargeant <bjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Franco Spinelli wrote:
> Klaus Kudielka ha scritto:
>> After digging through the mailing list archives, I finally succeeded
>> getting also Windows XP to work under xen 3.0.3 on an ASUS M2NPV-VM.
>>
>> Summary:
>> ========
>>
>> MB:  ASUS M2NPV-VM, BIOS 0504 (GeForce 6150 + nForce 430)
>> CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3500+
>> RAM: 2 x 512MB
>>
>> Distro:    FC6
>> Kernel:    kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6
>> Xen:       xen-3.0.3-0.1.rc3
>> Guest OS:  Windows XP Home SP2 EN
>>
>> Installation notes:
>> ===================
>>
>> 1. I had to use qemu (yum install qemu) for the first-stage CD install,
>>    otherwise the cursor keys required in the next step didn't work.
>> 2. When Windows asked to press F6 for additional drivers,
>>    I had to press F5 and to select "Standard PC".
>>    Otherwise I consistently got the following errors:
>>      a) acpi=apic=0: VM hangs during "Starting Windows"
>>      b) acpi=apic=1: VM hangs with blank screen at first boot from HD
>> 3. Qemu needed a long time to copy the first set of files. When qemu
>>    finally re-booted its VM, I terminated it with Ctrl-C and began
>> booting
>>    the Xen HVM from the virtual harddisk.
>>
>> This way I got past both the "Starting Windows" and the "blank screen"
>> hangs, and the remaining installation (on Xen HVM) continued smoothly.
>> The stame story obviously happened to other people as well:
>>
>> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2006-06/msg00452.html
>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2006-November/msg00026.html
>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2006-November/msg00056.html
>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2006-November/msg00158.html
>>
>> I also want to add that I consistently faced both hangs, regardless
>> whether I used the FC6 xen packages, xen-3.0.3 binary tarball, or
>> xen-3.0.3 compiled from source.
>>
>> Conclusions:
>> ============
>>
>> * ASUS M2NPV-VM works perfectly with HVM
>> * Windows XP (at least SP2) hardware auto-detection gets seriously  
>> confused by Xen HVM
>> * Cursor keys don't work on Xen HVM after pressing F5
>> * Many people have suffered from the same problem, so this should
>>   go into the FAQ
>>
>> Best regards, Klaus
>>
>
> I confirm successfull installation for both 32 and 64 bit version of
> Ubuntu Edgy, using Xen from Ubuntu Edgy repository, on my ASUS
> M2NPV-VM, and XP SP2 image CD.
>
> I have another ASUS MB, a P5LD2-VM DH, based on Intel chipset and with
> a Core 2 Duo CPU.
>
> Using same OS (Ubuntu Edgy) and same XP SP2 image CD, on this MB I can
> get XP up and running without any problem. Installation go smoothly
> from start to completition.
>
> So, XP hardaware auto-detection get seriously confused by Xen HVM only
> for some MB (and ASUS M2NPV-VM is one of this) and with AMD CPU.
>
> Regards
>
> Franco
>
Klaus & Franco, thanks for the  great information. I will update the
wiki soon.  Which BIOS version are you both using for the motherboards
(including Intel)?

--
Ben



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