[Fedora-xen] Problem installing full virtualized Vista guest

[Ian Patton]

Anything with an Intel Core 2 Duo should work fine.  I built mine from parts
from tigerdirect.com, so I can't give you a specific model #

New AMD procs have the full virt capability too, but I am not sure which
line of products it is available in.

Hope that helps some,

Ian Patton

On 12/17/06, Henry Zhang <Hua.Zhang at sun.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Ian,
>
> I am planing to play with HVM too, but I know they need some special
> processor, for example Intel VT, I wonder what machine you are using for
> HVM? could you recommend some machine? ( hope give me the detailed
> model, type, machine name, etc, so that I can tell others what I want
> when I borrow or buy.. )
>
> Thanks for your any help,
>
> Regards,
> Henry
>
> Ian Patton 写道:
> > Bill,
> >
> > Good luck getting Vista to install.  You may want to look at my threads
> > for Nov & Dec for a good working file and stuff, but even after I got it
> > installed I had problems with networking and sound not working...  also
> > kernel problems with the latest FC6 kernel xen
> >
> > I posted my findings here: http://virtualdreamscapes.blogspot.com/
> >
> > Also, after a few domU reboots it seems that the domU system became
> > unstable and would not boot.
> >
> > Later I tried parallels and did get Vista working with sound and
> > networking, but again after a few Vista reboots the system became
> > unstable and would not boot.
> >
> > I was using RC1 though...
> >
> > If you can get it to run and get networking up and get it stable, PLEASE
> > post to share your success story.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ian Patton
> >
> >
> > On 12/13/06, *Bill Davidsen* <davidsen at tmr.com
> > <mailto:davidsen at tmr.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     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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