On Wednesday, November 9, 2016 at 5:03:12 AM UTC-8, Pablo Di Noto wrote: > Hello, > > Never had much use for a Windows7 HVM so far. > > Months ago, I installed W7 on Qubes just for the sake of testing. Got to the > point of installing qubes-windows-tools and had some success with it, but > never used it much (in fact, never activated a license on the resulting W7 > install). > > Now I want to start from scratch, but cannot make a HVM to go further than > "Starting Windows" screen on the install phase. > > Only changes I recognize on my setup are: > - R3.2 final installed (which included several Xen updates, 4.6 to 4.6.3 IIRC) > - Got a "storage pool" enabled, to use the machine SHDD together with the > boot SSD. > > So far, tried all this: > - several W7 ISO versions (including the ones I successfully used before). > - creating the HVM with 2, 3 and 4gb of memory. > - creating the HVM on my "big storage" pool, the local SHDD, using -P option > in the qvm-create command > - creating the HVM on the original storage pool, the local boot > qubes-dom0-root volume, using the GUI to create the machine. > - using debug options on all the attempts, but logs show absolutely nothing > that I can recognize as error. > > Any pointers on what to try next, or how to debug? > > Thanks in advance! > ///Pablo
New to Qubes (installed today!), and this is my first post, but I had this same problem on my Thinkpad T420 and have gotten past it. Some light google sleuthing led me to a Proxmox issue that was similar, and they suggested trying a 'cirrus' video card instead of default. Digging around in Qubes source, I found you can pass a custom config to qvm-start. I copied the config for the vm to another location (from /var/lib/qubes/vm-templates/win7/win7.conf in my case) and edited the line in domain->devices->video->model and changed the type from 'xen' to 'cirrus'. So the result looked like this: <model type='cirrus' vram='16384' /> Then I started the vm with: qvm-start win7 --custom-config=[path to new config] This allowed me to get past the install hang. I haven't completed the install yet, so don't know if it'll be necessary once the install is complete. Hope that helps! Scot -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/97c03cc1-d5fb-4d07-80c2-25f85dc1074e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
