Problem starting a full virtualized Windows Guest

[Sven Oehme]

Hi , 

i am running xen 3.0.2 on FC5 and try to setup a full virtualized Windows 
Guest .
the installation Program starts , but as soon as it shows the text Windows 
is starting in the left bottom, nothing more happens .
i am attaching all needed information's :



and a pic of the screen : 

any ideas ??

i tried with the newest version today  :

kernel-xen0-2.6.16-1.2202_FC6
kernel-xen0-devel-2.6.16-1.2200_FC6
xen-3.0.2-4

when i start the guest , the system freezes and just reboots .

Sven

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 16:25 +0200, Sven Oehme wrote:

>  i am running xen 3.0.2 on FC5 and try to setup a full virtualized
>  Windows Guest . 
>  the installation Program starts , but as soon as it shows the text
>  Windows is starting in the left bottom, nothing more happens .  
I've found similar problems installing a fully-virtualised RHEL-4 onto
FC-5; RHEL-3 installs fine.

It seems that the IO emulation in Xen-3.0.2 (which is what FC-5 is
using) has some problems in these cases.  The rawhide kernel follows the
upstream xen-unstable development branch, and that one works fine for
RHEL-4 FV installs for me; does that help for you?

Thanks,
 Stephen

[Sven Oehme]

Hi , 

this is fixed in the xen-unstable repro since at least 2-3 Weeks, since 
that i never tried a redhat kernel, which kernel you are referring to  , 
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/... 
?

Sven




"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct(a)redhat.com&gt; 
06/06/2006 11:29 AM

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Hi,

On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 16:25 +0200, Sven Oehme wrote:

>  i am running xen 3.0.2 on FC5 and try to setup a full virtualized
>  Windows Guest . 
>  the installation Program starts , but as soon as it shows the text
>  Windows is starting in the left bottom, nothing more happens .  
I've found similar problems installing a fully-virtualised RHEL-4 onto
FC-5; RHEL-3 installs fine.

It seems that the IO emulation in Xen-3.0.2 (which is what FC-5 is
using) has some problems in these cases.  The rawhide kernel follows the
upstream xen-unstable development branch, and that one works fine for
RHEL-4 FV installs for me; does that help for you?

Thanks,
 Stephen

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 13:29 +0200, Sven Oehme wrote:

>  this is fixed in the xen-unstable repro since at least 2-3 Weeks,
>  since that i never tried a redhat kernel, which kernel you are
>  referring to  ,
>  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/... ?
>  
Yes.  That one tracks xen-unstable quite closely.

Cheers,
 Stephen

[Sven Oehme]

Hi , 

the kernel-xen0 rpm's seem pretty fresh, but the xen-3.0.2-4 is older than 
1 month , so i expect my bug isn't fixed before you do a rebase on this 
package. when is that expected ?

Sven




"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct(a)redhat.com&gt; 
06/06/2006 07:15 PM

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Hi,

On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 13:29 +0200, Sven Oehme wrote:

>  this is fixed in the xen-unstable repro since at least 2-3 Weeks,
>  since that i never tried a redhat kernel, which kernel you are
>  referring to  ,
>  
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/...

? 

Yes.  That one tracks xen-unstable quite closely.

Cheers,
 Stephen

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 21:34 +0200, Sven Oehme wrote:

>  the kernel-xen0 rpm's seem pretty fresh, but the xen-3.0.2-4 is
> older
>  than 1 month , so i expect my bug isn't fixed before you do a rebase
>  on this package. when is that expected ?  
The xen plus kernel-xen0 in rawhide works fine f
or me and I have seen no reports of specific problems requiring an
update, so there isn't any timetable for a rebase.  It's probably about
time to do one anyway, though.  Can you reproduce the problem with the
current packages?

--Stephen
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