On 06/12/2010 06:34 AM, Ken Smith wrote: > Hi, New to the list but not to Linux. > > There has been a discussion on the "Fedora Users" list about an anomaly > that's been seen with FC13 64bit and installing XP as a guest. > > It's a standard FC13 installation on a machine with an Intel i7 and 4G Ram. > > When the XP installation finishes the initial text style part of its > install process and reboots to run the GUI part of the install process > the virtual machine fails to boot it from the virtualised hard disk. > > But if its set to boot from the CD or, in my case, the iso image of a XP > install CD and its allowed to time out its initial question "Press any > key to boot from CD....." then the virtual machine starts up and > completes the XP installation. > > One the installation is finished, similar behaviour is seen to get the > XP virtual system to start up. If I change the setting in virt-manager > to boot from the Hard Disk image the boot of the VM fails but leaving it > set to boot from the install CD allows it to start normally after > allowing the initial question to timeout > > I have cc'd Suvayu Ali on this posting as he has also observed similar > behaviour. > > The thread on the Fedora Users list is here -> > > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/374730.html > > > Any suggestions. >
It's probably this bug filed against libvirt: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579348 Though it sounds like a qemu/kvm issue. Upstream bug report is here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/586175 No solution yet though. - Cole _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
