[Fedora-xen] win2k3 server standard edition hangs on "StartingWindows"

[Christopher Miller]

Okay, I found a couple months back where a fella pushed F5 during the initial setup phase, I did that and got as far as rebooting the machine into the installation. I see now I have to add the CDROM device back in the conf file. I've yet to find the instructions on this, but I'm sure they're in the archives somewhere. I'll keep posted on my progress.

peace,
       cj

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-xen-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-xen-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Christopher Miller
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 10:43 AM
To: fedora-xen at redhat.com
Subject: [Fedora-xen] win2k3 server standard edition hangs on "StartingWindows"

Hello list! I'm having a heck of a time getting Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition to install. I've tried using both virt-install and virt-manager, however it would seem that virt-manager gets further.
On the command line, I used this to provision the machine:

# virt-install \
--name=system1 \
--ram=2048 \
--file=/home/luser/virtuals/system1/system1.img \
--file-size=80 \
--nonsparse \
--network=bridge:xenbr0 \
--sdl \
--hvm \
--os-type=windows \
--os-variant=win2k3 \
--cdrom=/media/EN_OS_XP_2003_2428.4/english/win2003/standard/setup.exe

this command failed until I "touch"ed /home/luser/virtuals/system1/system1.img, and then said it was provisioning, and I should reconnect to the domain to see the machine, when I tried this, it was unavailable.

As I've indicated, my experience with virt-manager gets me "further" but what this further is, isn't usable either. I select the same options as above in the gui, and when I click "finish" it allocates the file I've selected, and the new domain shows up in the virt-manager window. I can right-click on the new virtual and connect to the console, select which version of windows I'm installing, and the startup even runs up to the point where it says "Windows Setup: Setup is starting Windows" (this is the last blue dos type screen before being switched into the windows install gui, for those familiar) and freezes there. I've posted a couple screen shots here:
http://63.231.71.205/~cj/xen/AllWindows.png
        http://63.231.71.205/~cj/xen/Console.png

I'm running Fedora Core 6, all updates, on a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+, kernel 2.6.20-1.2999.fc6xen, 3GB RAM. I'm installing from an MSDN disk in my cdrom drive. Please let me know if there's any more information I can provide. Thanks in advance!

Christopher Jon Miller
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