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[Xen-users] Windows 2008 installer hangs on Xen 3.2

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Subject: [Xen-users] Windows 2008 installer hangs on Xen 3.2
From: Michael Chapman <michael.chapman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:04:00 +1100 (EST)
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Hi all,

I am trying to install Windows 2008 R2 Web edition (64-bit) in a fully-virtualized guest on Xen 3.2. The problem I am having is that the installer is hanging immediately at the graphical "Starting Windows" screen. In safe mode, the last driver loaded is disk.sys.

The server hardware is a Dell PowerEdge R710, with 2 Intel Xeon E5520 processors, and 72 GiB RAM. I am using the hypervisor and Dom0 kernel packages from Debian Lenny -- xen-hypervisor-3.2-1-amd64 version 3.2.1-2 and linux-modules-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 version 2.6.26-21 respectively.

Is this a known problem with this particular version of Xen? I would prefer not to have to upgrade Xen if possible, as it is working perfectly well with other guest OSs and on other server hardware.

I have attached the relevant bits of my Xen domain config below.

Any assistance with this matter would be greatly appreciated.

- Michael

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name = "windows"
kernel = "/usr/lib/xen-default/boot/hvmloader"
builder = "hvm"
device_model = "/usr/lib/xen-default/bin/qemu-dm"
usbdevice = "tablet"
apic = 1
acpi = 1
pae = 1

memory = 2048
maxmem = 16384
vcpus = 2

disk = [
        "phy:/dev/volgroup/windows,ioemu:hda,w",
        "file:///root/windows.iso,ioemu:hdb:cdrom,r",
]

vif = [ "type=ioemu,bridge=vps,mac=54:52:00:0f:b9:d7" ]

vnc = 1
vncunused = 0
vncdisplay = 1
vnclisten = "127.0.0.1"

boot = "d"


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