Hi,
yes you can install Windows (XP/2003) guest as a HVM guest on RHEL5
Beta 2.
They magic "key" is to press F6/F5 to select a different HAL/HW
(choose Standard PC) and to
manually re-add the CDrom line to your config file before you
reboot the guest to resume the
installation.
I've been using the following line for my Windows installations
which has worked well so far :)
disk = [
'file:/xen/guests/win2003sp1.dsk,hda,w','file:/xen/trees/ISO/WIN/en_windows_server_2003_with_sp1_standard.iso,hdc:cdrom,r',
]
and I also added the following line just to be sure ....
cdrom="/xen/trees/ISO/WIN/en_windows_server_2003_with_sp1_standard.iso"
After you added the above lines to the guest config file in
/etc/xen/YourWIndowsGurestName you just restart your guest using
"xm create YourWindowsGuest" and the installation should continue .
Hth,
- Jan
Jeffrey D Lane wrote:
Just for my own edification, has anyone managed to install a fully
virtualized DomU with WinXP or Windows 2003??
I cant seem to get one to install completely which is quite frustrating.
I can get virt-manager to create the DomU, and it does begin installing
from CD, but after the Windows installer copies all its files, it
reboots to load the full installer and at that point it fails because
it can no longer see the CD. I have tried adding a cdrom line that
points to /dev/hdc and then tried one that pointed to /media/cdrom
after mounting the cdrom to that mt. point, but no joy.
So anyone try this, or am I just insane? Of course, my network
installed RHEL5 DomUs work perfectly. I haven't tried any other OSs
yet. Is there a list of supported OSs available anywhere on Red Hat.com
yet??
Cheers
Jeff
Jeffrey Lane <--> W4KDH
Software Engineer
IBM eServer xSeries
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
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