New subject: Problem installing full virtualized Vista guest

17 Dec 2006

      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@sun.com wrote:
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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:
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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@tmr.com
mailto:davidsen@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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