Re: [Xen-users] Errors installing WinXP with Xen 3.0.3

["Eric Benton" <benton71@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

You'll have to move the cdrom line to the disk array in your config file. 
It is documented in the user manual.

Eric

On 10/27/06, Simon Gao <gao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

I am having this error while trying to install Windows XP with Xen
3.0.3. The OS is CentOS 4.4.

On the SDL windows,
====================================================
Plex86/Bochs VGABios current-cvs 26 Oct 2006
This VGA/VBE Bios is released under GNU LGPL.

Please visit:
    . http://bochs.sourceforge.net
    . http://www.nongnu.org/vgabios

cirrus-compatible VGA is detected

HVMAssist BIOS, 1 cpu, $Revision: 1.138 $ $Date: 2005/05/07 15:55:26 $

ata0 master: QEMU HARDDISK ATA-7 Hard-disk (4096 MBytes)
ata0   slave: Unknown device

CDROM boot failure code: 0002
Boot from CD-Rom failed
FATAL: Could not read the boot disk
=====================================================

$ xm demsg
......
(XEN) vmx_do_launch(): GUEST_CR3<=6a57d000, HOST_CR3<=6a57e000
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) HVM Loader
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) Detected Xen v3.0.3-0
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) Writing SMBIOS tables ...
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) Loading ROMBIOS ...
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) Loading Cirrus VGABIOS ...
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) Loading VMXAssist ...
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) VMX go ...
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) VMXAssist (Oct 26 2006)
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) Memory size 512 MB
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) E820 map:
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) 0000000000000000 - 000000000009F000 (RAM)
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) 000000000009F000 - 00000000000A0000 (Reserved)
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) 00000000000A0000 - 00000000000C0000 (Type 16)
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) 00000000000F0000 - 0000000000100000 (Reserved)
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) 0000000000100000 - 000000001FFF0000 (RAM)
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) 000000001FFF0000 - 000000001FFFA000 (ACPI Data)
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) 000000001FFFA000 - 000000001FFFD000 (ACPI NVS)
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) 000000001FFFD000 - 000000001FFFE000 (Type 19)
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) 000000001FFFE000 - 000000001FFFF000 (Type 18)
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) 000000001FFFF000 - 0000000020000000 (Type 17)
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) 00000000FEC00000 - 0000000100000000 (Type 16)
(XEN) (GUEST: 1)
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) Start BIOS ...
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) Starting emulated 16-bit real-mode: ip=F000:FFF0
(XEN) (GUEST: 1)  rombios.c ,v 1.138 2005/05/07 15:55:26 vruppert Exp $
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) Remapping master: ICW2 0x8 -> 0x20
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) Remapping slave: ICW2 0x70 -> 0x28
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) VGABios $Id: vgabios.c,v 1.61 2005/05/24 16:50:50
vruppert Exp $
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) HVMAssist BIOS, 1 cpu, $Revision: 1.138 $ $Date:
2005/05/07 15:55:26 $
(XEN) (GUEST: 1)
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) ata0-0: PCHS=8322/16/63 translation=lba LCHS=522/255/63
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) ata0 master: QEMU HARDDISK ATA-7 Hard-Disk (4096 MBytes)
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) ata0  slave: Unknown device
(XEN) (GUEST: 1)
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) CDROM boot failure code : 0002
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) Boot from CD-Rom failed
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) FATAL: Could not read the boot disk
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) Unknown opcode at F000:09E1=0xF09E1
(XEN) (GUEST: 1) Halt called from %eip 0xD384A

The machine does have Intel-VT support.

$ cat /etc/xen/winxp
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kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
builder='hvm'
memory = 512
name = "WinXP"
vif = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr0' ]
disk = [ 'file:/opt/xvms/windisk.img,ioemu:hda,w' ]

on_reboot   = 'destroy'
on_crash    = 'destroy'
device_model = '/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
cdrom='/opt/iso/winxp/winxp_sp2.iso'
boot='d'
sdl=1
vnc=0
vncviewer=0
===============================================

Do I miss anything or configure something right?

Simon

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