FC13 Virt & Win XP guest

[Ken Smith]

Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Thursday 10 June 2010 12:31 AM, Ken Smith wrote:
>   
>> Suvayu Ali wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thursday 10 June 2010 12:18 AM, Ken Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Hi all, I've set up FC13 64bit on a machine with an intel i7 and 4G memory
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to get a simple virtualisation to work. I followed the
>>>> instructions here ->
>>>>
>>>> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Virtualization_Guide/sect-Virtualization-Installing_Windows_XP_as_a_fully_virtualized_guest.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The install of XP runs fine but when it reboots to run the GUI part of
>>>> the install I get this message in the VM's console:-
>>>>
>>>> Booting from Hard Disk:
>>>>
>>>> A disk read error occurred
>>>> Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Pick boot from CD and reboot, it will fix itself. I also ran into this
>>> yesterday.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> I'm installing from an ISO image of the XP install CD. Won't that just
>> kick off the install from the start over again?
>>
>>     
>
> I was installing from a CD, so I went to the hardware details tab and 
> selected the CD ROM drive in boot options as the boot device. I know 
> this sounds stupid, but it worked then. However after your email I tried 
> to check whether it can still boot. (of course after changing the boot 
> device to something appropriate) But its stuck at "Booting from Hard Disk"
>
> I will try again when I have some time this weekend. This might also be 
> a valid bug as I got this SElinux error every time I started a VM in 
> virt manager.
>
>   
>> Summary:
>>
>> SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/qemu-kvm "write" access on sr0.
>>
>>     
>
> I am sorry my response is not very precise. I 'll look into this in more 
> detail when I have more time.
>
>   
>> Ken
>>
>>     
>
> GL resolving this
>   

Despite my doubts I tried the boot from CD option as you suggested. It 
works. The GUI part of install then concludes. But the virtual machine 
won't boot if I switch it to boot from hard disk. So I've left it set as 
boot from CD for the moment and just ignore its "press any key...." prompt.

A bit of a kludge but its working.

:-) Ken



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