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Re: [Xen-users] Windows XP SP2 on Debian Etch xen 3.0.3


  • To: "Nick Anderson" <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: "Todd Deshane" <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 14:44:36 -0400
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Hi Nick,

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Nick Anderson <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a Supermicro H8DM8-2 with 2 Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2350
> and 16G of memory.
>
>  I am trying to get a windows HVM to work. I was able to get the install cd
> booted and was able to install without too many issues. Crashing during
> install seemed to be resolved by flipping acpi and apic on in the xen
> config. However after the install on the first boot, after I flip the boot
> device to 'c' all I get is a black window.
>
>  Any ideas what is going on or how to resolve it?
>


Have you looked in the log file(s) ?

/var/log/xen/* and in particular there should be something giving
errors in the qemu one I would imagine.

Also how did you install Xen? is it CentOS? Any reason you don't use
at least a slightly newer version of Xen?

Cheers,
Todd




>  Here is my cfg.
>
>  kernel      = '/usr/lib/xen-3.0.3-1/boot/hvmloader'
>  boot    = 'c'
>  builder = 'hvm'
>  device_model = '/usr/lib/xen-3.0.3-1/bin/qemu-dm'
>  memory      = '2048'
>  vnc='1'
>  vnclisten='172.16.0.49'
>  root        = '/dev/xvda1 ro'
>  disk        = [
>                   'phy:/dev/xenhost-lvm/winxp-disk,ioemu:hda,w',
>                   'file:/root/isos/winxp_sp2.iso,ioemu:hdc:cdrom,r',
>               ]
>
>  acpi='1'
>  apic='1'
>  name        = 'winxp'
>  vif         = [ 'type=ioemu,bridge=xenbr0' ]
>  on_poweroff = 'destroy'
>  on_reboot   = 'restart'
>  on_crash    = 'restart'
>
>
>  Thanks
>  --
>  Nick Anderson <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  http://www.cmdln.org
>  http://www.anders0n.net
>
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