Re: [CentOS-virt] Windows 7 on a centos kvm host pauses after the installation reboot.

2014-06-09 Thread James B. Byrne

On Sun, June 8, 2014 19:21, Eliezer Croitoru wrote:
 I am using Centos 6.5 as a kvm hypervisor with local ssd disks in raid
 and with glusterfs based storage for couple disk images.
 I have tried to install Windows 7 from ISO and it seems to pass the
 first stage of the installation which installs the basic files and also
 the first reboot.
 After that the installation is almost finished and the desktop should be
 up and running after a reboot but instead the Windows 7 machine gets
 paused before windows shows the windows 7 logo at the boot sequence.

 I have tried to find for a record of the issue in the past but found
 only tiny records which I did not understood from, if it was solved or not.
 The kvm host has 16GB of ram and 100GB of disk space.
 For this specific host I have used a disk image ontop of glusterfs but
 the same happens ontop of glusterfs and ontop of local disks.

 I have an ubuntu kvm host with less RAM and I can install windows server
 2012 (which I was unable to install on the Centos 6.5 kvm host both 2012
 + windows 8 + windows 7).

 Two things:
 If anyone had or has the same issue please notify me.
 If anyone has a solution please share it.

 Thanks,
 Eliezer


1. Is there a CD/DVD drive associated with the VM?

2. If so, do you have a readable optical disk in the drive when starting the
Windows7 guest?

If the answer to 1 is yes and to 2 is no and your guest configuration file
shows this:

 30 disk type='block' device='cdrom'
 31   driver name='qemu' type='raw'/
 32   source dev='/dev/sr0'/
 33   target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/
 34   readonly/
 35   address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' target='0' unit='0'/
 36 /disk

then remove the line 'source dev='/dev/sr0'/' and try again.

HTH.

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Re: [CentOS-virt] Windows 7 on a centos kvm host pauses after the installation reboot.

2014-06-09 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
Hey James,

I do not have any optical device associated with the VM.
What I tried and worked was to update the OS and also the kernel.
Since I did an update from 2.6.X base repo kernel to elrepo lt kernel 
and Centos basic updates and then a reboot it was all resolved.
I do not know the reason but it seems like the updated system solved the 
issue.

Thanks,
Eliezer

On 06/09/2014 04:41 PM, James B. Byrne wrote:
 1. Is there a CD/DVD drive associated with the VM?

 2. If so, do you have a readable optical disk in the drive when starting the
 Windows7 guest?

 If the answer to 1 is yes and to 2 is no and your guest configuration file
 shows this:

   30 disk type='block' device='cdrom'
   31   driver name='qemu' type='raw'/
   32   source dev='/dev/sr0'/
   33   target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/
   34   readonly/
   35   address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' target='0' 
 unit='0'/
   36 /disk

 then remove the line 'source dev='/dev/sr0'/' and try again.

 HTH.

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