[et-mgmt-tools] Re: w2k3 on Centos5-xen

[Tom Diehl]

On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, Chris Sarginson wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>
> The way to resolve this is to run virsh dumpxml $id > file.xml
>
> edit file.xml at the relevant section to add in the ISO/cdrom path and then 
> run
>
> virsh create file.xml

Thanks Chris,

Once I found the format of that file, it worked like a champ.

Is this a bug in virt-manager, I would think virt-manager should add this info
when you create a new vm but I am new at all of this virtual stuff so I could be
wrong.

Regards,

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> Tom Diehl wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am trying to use virt-manager to setup a w2k3 domU. I have successfully
>> gotten a centos-5 domU running using cobbler and koan, but windows is not
>> cooperating. The windows installer boots and everything is fine up until
>> the point that the installer reboots the machine.
>> 
>> When the machine reboots into the graphical installer I get an error that
>> it can no longer find the media in the cdrom. Of course at that point I
>> have to abort the install because the only options are retry or cancel.
>> 
>> I do not know if it is important or not but when windows says it is going
>> to reboot, it actually shutsdown and I have to manually restart it.
>> 
>> The config file for the w2k3 domU looks like the following:
>> 
>> name = "w2k3"
>> uuid = "24375a2a-30d3-5b4e-1076-bc607f73c35e"
>> maxmem = 500
>> memory = 500
>> vcpus = 1
>> builder = "hvm"
>> kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
>> boot = "c"
>> pae = 1
>> acpi = 1
>> apic = 1
>> on_poweroff = "destroy"
>> on_reboot = "restart"
>> on_crash = "restart"
>> device_model = "/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm"
>> sdl = 0
>> vnc = 1
>> vncunused = 1
>> disk = [ "phy:/dev/GEP0/w2k3,hda,w" ]
>> vif = [ "mac=00:16:3e:04:fd:03,bridge=xenbr0,type=ioemu" ]
>> serial = "pty"
>> 
>> (geppetto pts10) # rpm -qa | grep virt
>> libvirt-0.2.3-9.el5
>> libvirt-0.2.3-9.el5
>> virt-manager-0.4.0-3.el5
>> libvirt-python-0.2.3-9.el5
>> python-virtinst-0.103.0-3.el5.centos
>> (geppetto pts10) #
>> 
>> The above file is as created by virt-manager.
>> 
>> I have been looking through google for the last few hours but no joy.
>> 
>> Is virt-manager devel at a point where this is expected to work? If so, can
>> someone give me an idea what I am missing?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
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