Xen users - Jun 2008 - Windows XP Pro SP1 installs, but no GUI/Display after a reboot

I''ve gotten the intall to work just fine.  I get to the point where it
asks me for network information, date, time, etc. but then after a few seconds
the screen goes blank and the XP gui disappears.

I''ve done a ''xm reboot windowsxp-1'' and I can see the
XP installation reboot and also acquire an IP address via DHCP but still no gui.
''xm top'' shows that XP is running.

What am I missing here?  I thought that the XP gui would be display from my X
console?




name="windowsxp-1"
ostype="windowsxp"
uuid="22c380a4-6549-35e9-8c8b-bc06c0453cc2"
memory=256
vcpus=1
on_crash="destroy"
on_poweroff="destroy"
on_reboot="restart"
localtime=1

builder="hvm"
extid=0
device_model="/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm"
kernel="/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
boot="c"
disk=[ ''file:/var/lib/xen/images/windowsxp-1/disk0,hda,w'',
''file:/usr/local/isos/Win_XP_Pro_SP1_VLA.iso,hdc:cdrom,r'', ]
vif=[ ''mac=00:16:3e:79:a2:80,model=rtl8139,type=ioemu'', ]
stdvga=1
sdl=1
vnc=0
vncviewer=0
apic=0
acpi=1
pae=1

usb=1
usbdevice=''tablet''

serial="pty"






Thanks, Brian





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Hi,
> I''ve gotten the intall to work just fine.  I get to the point
where it
> asks me for network information, date, time, etc. but then after a few
> seconds the screen goes blank and the XP gui disappears.
stupid hint, but check if the install media of XP REALLY works (I had
similar problems with XP installs on VMs and figured out that my CDs
where bad).
-- 

Chau y hasta luego,

Thorolf

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Thorolf Godawa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> I''ve gotten the intall to work just fine.  I get to the point
where it
>> asks me for network information, date, time, etc. but then after a few
>> seconds the screen goes blank and the XP gui disappears.
> stupid hint, but check if the install media of XP REALLY works (I had
> similar problems with XP installs on VMs and figured out that my CDs
> where bad).
Same here. We tried all kinds of things for 2 hours until my colleage 
came embarrassed from the server room because he found out that he 
inserted an XP SP2 installer CD instead of a Windows Server 2003 CD, and 
that was of course not bootable ^^





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When I do an ''xm top'' I do see the Windows XP vm running. 
I''ve also tried "xm console windowsxp'' with no luck.

I _do_ see that XP is getting an IP address from my DHCP server so I know that
the VM is running, but I just don''t have a display/GUI.

In addition, I installed OpenSUSE 10.3 and the same thing happened:  no GUI. 
However I _was_ able to ''xm console sles10'' and get to a login
prompt.  ''runlevel'' at the console indicated that SuSE 10
thought it was in runlevel 5.  ''init 3'' then ''init
5'' didn''t bring up a GUI.

I must be missing something basic here.  I''m using VNC to administer
the dom0 so I''m not physically at the VGA console.  Could this be the
problem?  I have an HP server at home that I play with and I don''t have
any issues whatsoever.  However, I am at the physical console.

Does the XP VM need to be accessed via a VNC session or something similar? 
Remote desktop isn''t (yet) running on the VM so I can''t get to
it there, either.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Brian




I''ve gotten the intall to work just fine.  I get to the point where it
asks me
for network information, date, time, etc. but then after a few seconds the 
screen goes blank and the XP gui disappears.

I''ve done a ''xm reboot windowsxp-1'' and I can see the
XP installation reboot
and also acquire an IP address via DHCP but still no gui.  ''xm
top'' shows that
XP is running.

What am I missing here?  I thought that the XP gui would be display from my X 
console?





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On Wednesday June 04 2008 10:03:15 am Brian Schonecker
wrote:
> I must be missing something basic here.  I''m using VNC to
administer the
> dom0 so I''m not physically at the VGA console.  Could this be the
problem?
Could be. Instead of using vnc to dom0 (or in addition to it), try ssh -X (X 
forwarding) to your dom0, and give your xm create there, and your Windows vnc 
window should pop up on your ssh client''s desktop.

This assumes that your hvm config is setup right. I seem to remember you had 
sdl=1/vnc=0. Try sdl=0/vnc=1/vncconsole=1/vncunused=1, or 
sdl=0/vnc=1/vncconsole=1/vncunused=0/vncdisplay=n. For the vncunused=0 case, 
on old xens, commenting out vncdisplay means use the domid # and add it to 
5900 to get the port number vnc connects on. On new xens, vncdisplay=n means 
connect on 5900+n. On dom0, you can issue an ''xm list -l
domu-name'', and the
vfb section will tell you what port you are using.

If you issue the vncviewer command on your ssh connection (or the config file 
does it for you), and thus vncviewer is running on dom0, then the default 
vnclisten="127.0.0.1" is fine. If you exit this vnc running on dom0,
and want
to run a vnc client on the same desktop your ssh connection is coming from, 
your vnclisten will have to be broader. (I tend to run behind the protection 
of a router.)

Putting it all together, this works for my Windows hvms:

sdl=0
vnc=1
vnclisten="0.0.0.0"
#vnclisten="192.168.1.0/24"
# set VNC display number, default = domid
vncdisplay=3
# try to find an unused port for the VNC server, default = 1
vncunused=0
vncconsole=1


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