Update: With the HP Proliant ML110 Gen9 and the Cpu "Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2603 v3 @ 1.60GHz" Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2 works.
regards gregor On 17/01/16 17:21, gregor wrote: > 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

