Re: [Xen-users] Windows 2008 installer hangs on Xen 3.2

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:04:00PM +1100, Michael Chapman wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to install Windows 2008 R2 Web edition (64-bit) in a  
> fully-virtualized guest on Xen 3.2. The problem I am having is that the  
> installer is hanging immediately at the graphical "Starting Windows"  
> screen. In safe mode, the last driver loaded is disk.sys.
>
> The server hardware is a Dell PowerEdge R710, with 2 Intel Xeon E5520  
> processors, and 72 GiB RAM. I am using the hypervisor and Dom0 kernel  
> packages from Debian Lenny -- xen-hypervisor-3.2-1-amd64 version 3.2.1-2  
> and linux-modules-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 version 2.6.26-21 respectively.
>
> Is this a known problem with this particular version of Xen? I would  
> prefer not to have to upgrade Xen if possible, as it is working perfectly 
> well with other guest OSs and on other server hardware.
>
> I have attached the relevant bits of my Xen domain config below.
>
> Any assistance with this matter would be greatly appreciated.
>

Try with 2 GB of memory first.. 

Other than that dunno what to try.. Xen 3.2 really is old, especially 
for running Windows 2008.

-- Pasi

> - Michael
>
> ----------------
>
> name = "windows"
> kernel = "/usr/lib/xen-default/boot/hvmloader"
> builder = "hvm"
> device_model = "/usr/lib/xen-default/bin/qemu-dm"
> usbdevice = "tablet"
> apic = 1
> acpi = 1
> pae = 1
>
> memory = 2048
> maxmem = 16384
> vcpus = 2
>
> disk = [
>       "phy:/dev/volgroup/windows,ioemu:hda,w",
>       "file:///root/windows.iso,ioemu:hdb:cdrom,r",
> ]
>
> vif = [ "type=ioemu,bridge=vps,mac=54:52:00:0f:b9:d7" ]
>
> vnc = 1
> vncunused = 0
> vncdisplay = 1
> vnclisten = "127.0.0.1"
>
> boot = "d"
>
>
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