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

Wed Aug 15 23:35:10 UTC 2007

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 10:42:54AM -0600, Christopher Miller wrote:
> 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 \

Disk images have to be in /var/lib/xen/images

> --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

You need to point it at the CDROM device, rather than a file on the CDROM.
Unmount /media/EN_OS_XP_2003_2428.4, and use /dev/cdrom as your path.

Regards,
Dan.
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