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

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 02:00:18PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 05:23:41PM +1100, Michael Chapman wrote:
> > On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Chris wrote:
> >> I had that issue recently with 2008 r2, a non r2 disc however worked 
> >> fine. Does it happen to be r2?
> >
> > It certainly is.
> >
> > I've just discovered a similar problem occurs with Ubuntu 9.10. Here it  
> > hangs immediately after:
> >
> >   Initializing cgroup subsys net_cls
> >
> > I think this is around the point where it probes what CPUs are available  
> > and what their features are.
> >
> > I should point out we haven't had any problem with Win 2k8 R2 Web on Xen  
> > 3.2 on other hardware. We're running it in a couple of DomU's on a  
> > Supermicro 6025B-URB with a pair of Xen E5420's. Could there be some  
> > feature of the E5520 CPUs that is being exposed to DomU's but that  
> > shouldn't be?
> >
> > I tried Xen 3.4.2 downloaded directly from xen.org. This is even worse -- 
> > we boot images off the network to do installs, but on 3.4.2 gPXE simply  
> > hangs, then fills the screen with white.
> >
> 
> Are you sure you have properly installed 3.4.2 system? ie. no leftovers from 
> 3.2
> messing up things? 
> 
> about gpxe.. not sure about that. Someone else using it? 
> 

What emulated NIC model did you use for the HVM guest? 
Did you try Intel e1000 ?

-- Pasi


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