[Fedora-xen] Problem installing full virtualized Vista guest

[Bill Davidsen]

Jimison, Ed wrote:
>
> Now that I finally got W2K installed as a guest, I’m moving on to 
> Vista. The initial setup and config worked and the Vista install 
> booted from CDROM and transferred files to the harddrive. After reboot 
> there is just a blank black screen, which is very similar to the W2K 
> install. With W2K I worked around it by hitting F5 and selecting 
> Standard PC. With Vista there is no such option.
>
> I transferred the ISO to disk and added it to my config file. When I 
> create the guest and it tries to boot I get this error:
>
> Boot from Hard Disk 0 failed
>
> FATAL: not a bootable disk
>
You might try running xm with boot from CD.
xm create vistavirt1 boot=d

I've been trying to install Win98SE, and the startup claims it can't 
find a driver for the CD. My file looks just about like your, I get 
asked to boot from disk or CD, then after a few screens it says it can't 
find a CD driver. I'm about to switch to vmware, even if I have to run 
Windows. Also tried:
phy:/dev/dvd,hdc:c,r
with no more luck.

The install used to run slowly under qemu, and the operative word there 
is "run," I spent a bunch on a big new hvm capable server, and I can't 
install the things I need to test.
>
> My config file:
>
> # Automatically generated xen config file
>
> name = "vistavirt1"
>
> builder = "hvm"
>
> memory = "500"
>
> disk = [ '_file:/xen/vistavirt1,hda,w_', 
> '_file:/home/evjimiso/vista.iso,hdc:c,r_']
>
> vif = [ 'type=ioemu, mac=00:16:3e:3f:17:66, bridge=xenbr0', ]
>
> uuid = "2dc04ca6-4de7-0b22-8cc4-4bdb0ff273d9"
>
> device_model = "/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm"
>
> kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
>
> vnc=1
>
> vncunused=1
>
> apic=1
>
> acpi=1
>
> pae=1
>
> vcpus=1
>
> serial = "pty" # enable serial console
>
> on_reboot = 'restart'
>
> on_crash = 'restart'
>
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