Re: [Xen-users] Problem: Windows on Xen

[davefury <david.corral@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Solved: 

Modified 
disk = [ 'file:/home/xen/domains/win/disk.img,ioemu:hdb,w',
'file:/home/david/win.iso,ioemu:hda:cdrom,r' ]

and added the line:
cdrom='/home/david/win.iso'
pointing where the installation cdimage is stored.

Now the domu runs for 3 or 4 seconds  (I can see the the Windows setup
loading bar) and after that it autodestroys.

Some progress here, hope you dont mind the excesive posting, but hope this
helps to newcomers to this world like me. Thanks.


davefury wrote:
> 
> Ok, here's what I did:
> 
> ssh -X root@ip xterm
> 
> After login
> 
> vncviewer localhost:0
> 
> I got a new window screen showing what appears to be the initial check of
> the HVMAssist Bios.
> 
> 
> Ata0 Master: Unknown Device
> Ata0 Slave: QEMU Harddisk ata-7 hard-disk (4096 Mbytes)
> Ata1 Master: QEMU CD-ROM ATAPI-4 Cd-Rom/Dvd-Rom
> Ata1 Slave: Unknown Device
> 
> Boot from hard disk 0 failed
> FATAL: Not a bootable disk.
> 
> How should I change my .cfg so It boots from the .iso I stored in
> file:/home/david/win.iso ?
> 
> Think I almost got it :)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> Btw, forgot to paste my win.cfg, just in case it needs a review.
> 
> kernel = '/usr/lib64/xen-3.0.3-1/boot/hvmloader'
> builder = 'hvm'
> memory = '512'
> device_model='/usr/lib64/xen-3.0.3-1/bin/qemu-dm'
> 
> # Disks
> disk = [ 'file:/home/xen/domains/win/disk.img,ioemu:hdb,w',
> 'file:/home/david/win.iso,ioemu:hdc:cdrom,r' ]
> 
> 
> # Hostname
> name = 'win'
> 
> # Networking
> vif = ['type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr0']
> 
> # Behaviour
> acpi=1
> boot='c'
> vnc=1
> vncviewer=1
> #sdl=1
> serial='pty'
> on_poweroff = 'destroy'
> on_reboot = 'restart'
> on_crash = 'restart'
> 
> 
> Igor Chubin wrote:
>> 
>> On Fr, Dez 14, 2007 at 02:34:47 -0800, davefury wrote:
>>> 
>>> I was expecting a Windows installation window or something, like the
>>> windows
>>> installation cd booting. Other tutorials i've followed about installing
>>> windows on xen dont mention anything in particular... Just create the
>>> domain
>>> and "console" it. I've got the ssh addition that could mess the thing.
>>> 
>>> Thank you very much for the reply!
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Let us concentrate on VNC.
>> 
>> Enable vnc usage in the domain config file.
>> And after you have started the domain
>> 
>>   xm create win
>> 
>> try to attach to vnc session using vncviewer:
>> 
>>  vncviewer localhost:0
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sadique Puthen wrote:
>>> > 
>>> > davefury wrote:
>>> >> Hi there, first of all I must say i'm a little noobish at Linux and
>>> Xen.
>>> >> Currently I'm using Debian Etch x86_64, and I'd like to virtualize
>>> >> WindowsXP.
>>> >>
>>> >> The machine is a Intel Xeon which supports VT instructions.
>>> >>
>>> >> I've followed thousands of tutorials, guides and forums. (I think)
>>> I've
>>> >> successfully created the domain, and the thing is the console freezes
>>> >> when I
>>> >> execute xm console win. Just no error output, the key cursor wont
>>> even
>>> >> move.
>>> >>   
>>> > 
>>> > When you do "xm console win" - where win is a windows machine - from
>>> an 
>>> > ssh session from dom0, what do you expect as the output?  If I am 
>>> > running the same command against a linux machine, I would expect a log 
>>> > in prompt, but what for windows?  I don't think it's possible to get 
>>> > what you expect.
>>> > 
>>> > --Sadique
>>> > 
>>> >> The only solution to this is opening a new terminal and destroying
>>> the
>>> >> domain.
>>> >>
>>> >> The thing is I'm accessing to the server through ssh, and I could
>>> guess
>>> >> is
>>> >> something about the graphical output. Tried SDL but I get quite a lot
>>> of
>>> >> errors on the log. Using VNC, this is the log:
>>> >>
>>> >> domid: 47
>>> >> qemu: the number of cpus is 1
>>> >> shared page at pfn:1ffff, mfn: 435da
>>> >> buffered io page at pfn:1fffd, mfn: 435dc
>>> >> char device redirected to /dev/pts/3
>>> >> False I/O request ... in-service already: 0, pvalid: 0, port: 0,
>>> data: 0,
>>> >> count: 0, size: 0
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>   
>>> > 
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