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RE: [Xen-users] windows vps can not start after a reboot

To: "Jingyun He" <jingyun.ho@xxxxxxxxx>, <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] windows vps can not start after a reboot
From: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:08:09 +1100
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Thread-topic: [Xen-users] windows vps can not start after a reboot
> Hello,
> We have a windows vps running for a few days, today after we rebooted
> this vps, it never started, and I got this message from the vnc
> console.
> 
> Windows could not start because the following file is missing or
corrupt:
> <Windows root>\system32\hal.dll
> Please re-install a copy of the above file.
> 
> the OS is windows 2003 std 32bits with GPLPV 0.10.0.138,
> and hypervisor is xen 3.4.1, and we are using LVM paritions.
> 
> Any one know why does this happen?

What was the reason for the reboot? Was it applying updates?

Did it reboot cleanly as far as you know?

What backend are you using? In using tap:aio I have seen similar
problems, but on an LVM volume I assume you are using phy, can you
confirm?

James


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