Thank you, I realized the same hours ago and play currently with qemu on my machine to see if this works. The host CPU on my workstation is: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9650 Here the Westmere cpu setting worked.
On the server I configured for my customer I choose an Intel Xeon E5-2603V3 Link to the specification: http://ark.intel.com/products/83349/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2603-v3-15M-Cache-1_60-GHz regards gregor On 17/01/16 16:22, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, gregor <[email protected]> said: >> And will Windows Server 2012 run in oVirt, >> because on my test machine (HP ProLiant ML350 G5) it didn't (maybe the >> CPU is to old). > > I just went through trying to get Windows Server 2012 Essentials (both > "original" and R2) running on a cluster with Nehalem CPUs, and it would > blue-screen during install. I replicated the problem on my Fedora > desktop with plain KVM set up to emulate a Nehalem CPU. When I switched > to Westmere or newer, Windows worked. > > This appears to be some difference between Essentials and Standard > edition (I am running Windows Server 2012 Standard VMs on my cluster > just fine). A co-worker searching around on the Internet also found > some VirtualBox users having similar issues with Essentials. > > So, with Westmere or newer CPU, I think Essentials should be okay, but > don't try it with Nehalem. > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
