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Re: [Xen-users] Windows 2008 SBS on Xen 3.4 does not install

To: Bart Coninckx <bart.coninckx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Windows 2008 SBS on Xen 3.4 does not install
From: Teck Choon Giam <giamteckchoon@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 03:52:15 +0800
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May I know your Xen is installed via source or ?

Actually you need to set boot = 'cd' as the boot will boot drive c
then followed by drive d.  Without the c after successfully
installation, it will still go and boot to your drive d.  It is like
setting your BIOS boot order.  Someone correct me if I am wrong.  My
configuration never change during installation of any windows guest
OSes and after. It works fine for xen-3.3.x, xen-3.4.x and xen-4.0.x.
I have tested such installation for windows 2008, windows 2008 R2,
windows 7, windows XP, windows vista and RHEL6.  However, my host is
CentOS 5 though.

Thanks.

Kindest regards,
Giam Teck Choon


On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Bart Coninckx <bart.coninckx@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 28 October 2010 19:40:32 Bart Coninckx wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> trying to install Windows 2008 Small Business Server 64bit on Xen 3.4 on
>> opensuse 11.2.
>>
>> The install runs fine, but after the first reboot, the VNC console shows:
>>
>> boot mgr is missing
>>
>> When I try to repair that with the install CD, I cannot see the previously
>> installed C: partition, as if drivers are missing or something.
>>
>> Does any know of Windows 2008 SBS is installable at all? I've recently
>> installed a regular Windows 2008 Server on Xen 3.2 and that was not an
>> issue. R2 was of course.
>>
>> This is my config file:
>>
>> name="win1"
>> uuid="c157bc27-b978-0e46-c799-3b7bc64eb0ac"
>> memory=8192
>> maxmem=8192
>> vcpus=2
>> on_poweroff="destroy"
>> on_reboot="restart"
>> on_crash="destroy"
>> localtime=1
>>
>> builder="hvm"
>> extid=1
>> device_model="/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm"
>> kernel="/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
>> boot="d"
>> #disk=[ 'phy:/dev/mapper/win1c,hda,w', 'phy:/dev/mapper/win1d,hdb,w',
>> 'file:/mnt/nfs1/DVD1_Installation.iso,hdc:cdrom,r', ]
>> disk=[ 'phy:/dev/mapper/win1c,hda,w',
>> 'file:/mnt/nfs1/DVD1_Installation.iso,hdc:cdrom,r', ]
>> vif=[ 'bridge=br0,model=rtl8139', ]
>>
>>
>> stdvga=0
>> vnc=1
>> vncunused=1
>> apic=1
>> acpi=1
>> pae=1
>>
>> usb=1
>> usbdevice='tablet'
>>
>> serial="pty"
>>
>>
>> Thx!
>>
>> Bart
>>
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>
> Further investigation revealed that the installation reboots while extracting
> files, so the installation does not get to finish entirely. I'm testing now on
> Xen 4.0. Up till now it gets simpley stuck while extracting the files, once at
> 16%, once at 74%. Trying to see if this has to do with free disk space on my
> test machine. But my guess is it won't work on Xen 3.4. 4.0 Remains a
> question.
>
> B.
>
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