Am Sonntag, 20. November 2016 21:11:45 UTC+1 schrieb Scot Anderson: > 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
That worked for me also. (T420 / Qubes 3.2) Many thank's for that great Tip. Regards Marcus -- 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 qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/81b0b355-2946-4f1f-b7c1-42fe2a9f8faf%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
