[fedora-virt] Fedora 13 and Win XP Guest - Boot anomaly
Ken Smith
kens at kensnet.org
Sat Jun 12 10:34:32 UTC 2010
Hi, New to the list but not to Linux.
There has been a discussion on the "Fedora Users" list about an anomaly
that's been seen with FC13 64bit and installing XP as a guest.
It's a standard FC13 installation on a machine with an Intel i7 and 4G Ram.
When the XP installation finishes the initial text style part of its
install process and reboots to run the GUI part of the install process
the virtual machine fails to boot it from the virtualised hard disk.
But if its set to boot from the CD or, in my case, the iso image of a XP
install CD and its allowed to time out its initial question "Press any
key to boot from CD....." then the virtual machine starts up and
completes the XP installation.
One the installation is finished, similar behaviour is seen to get the
XP virtual system to start up. If I change the setting in virt-manager
to boot from the Hard Disk image the boot of the VM fails but leaving it
set to boot from the install CD allows it to start normally after
allowing the initial question to timeout
I have cc'd Suvayu Ali on this posting as he has also observed similar
behaviour.
The thread on the Fedora Users list is here ->
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/374730.html
Any suggestions.
Thanks
Ken
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