Hello, i am playing around with Windows Guests and i ran into one huge problem: I cant really access Safe Mode (by hitting F8) or change the boot menu selection manually. Right now my windows runs fine as a gues, but if it should break at some point i think will have problems to recover it.... Is there any way to see/manipulate the boot process in another way than the vnc console? Everytime i connect to my vnconsole the server is already starting up (even if i set a boot timeout of 30 seconds) Any suggestions or ideas? Thanks, Mario _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On 07/10/10 11:07, ml ml wrote:> i am playing around with Windows Guests and i ran into one huge problem: > > I cant really access Safe Mode (by hitting F8) or change the boot menu > selection manually. Right now my windows runs fine as a gues, but if > it should break at some point i think will have problems to recover > it....Start the guest paused (xm create -p), connect the vnc viewer and then unpause the guest. jch _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> Hello, > > i am playing around with Windows Guests and i ran into one hugeproblem:> > I cant really access Safe Mode (by hitting F8) or change the boot menu > selection manually. Right now my windows runs fine as a gues, but if > it should break at some point i think will have problems to recover > it.... > > Is there any way to see/manipulate the boot process in another way > than the vnc console? Everytime i connect to my vnconsole the server > is already starting up (even if i set a boot timeout of 30 seconds) > > Any suggestions or ideas? >Windows will skip the timeout if there is only selection in boot.ini. Copy the line under "[Operating Systems]" so that it thinks you want to choose the options. If 2008 or above, you''ll need to use bcdedit to accomplish the same thing. James _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users