Fedora xen - Jun 2007 - Fedora 7 virtual machine problems

I have at least two problems running a virtual machine on F7

1. When I run qemu from the command line I can create a virtual
disk, run a virtual machine and install Windows XP on it. I can do
this because it enables me to define the cdrom on the command line
with "-cdrom /dev/cdrom". But I can''t get any further because
it keeps
giving me an error saying "A problem is preventing Windows from
accurately checking the license for this computer"

If I run the same virtual machine from the virtual machine manager I
don''t get that error. But I don''t get the CD ROM either


2. The above was obtained with QEMU. If I try to connect the Virtual
Machine Manager to XEN I get an error that tells me that either I''m
not running a XEN-enabled kernel, or the XEN service isn''t running.
Unfortunately, it is running!

Any advice from anyone on either of these? I would love to do away
with dual-booting my laptop and just run Vista in a VM when I need it,
but so far I''m not having a lot of luck.

JDL

On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 10:25:27AM +0100, John Lagrue
wrote:
> I have at least two problems running a virtual machine on F7
> 
> 1. When I run qemu from the command line I can create a virtual
> disk, run a virtual machine and install Windows XP on it. I can do
> this because it enables me to define the cdrom on the command line
> with "-cdrom /dev/cdrom". But I can''t get any further
because it keeps
> giving me an error saying "A problem is preventing Windows from
> accurately checking the license for this computer"
> 
> If I run the same virtual machine from the virtual machine manager I
> don''t get that error. But I don''t get the CD ROM either
Huh ? The new virtual machine wizard *requires* that you provide a
ISO image or CDROM device to do a fullyvirtualized install in QEMU.
I''m not sure how you''d create a QEMU vm without getting a
CDROM ?
> 2. The above was obtained with QEMU. If I try to connect the Virtual
> Machine Manager to XEN I get an error that tells me that either
I''m
> not running a XEN-enabled kernel, or the XEN service isn''t
running.
> Unfortunately, it is running!
Check /root/.virt-manager/virt-manager.log for further details ? Also
does virsh list work ?

Dan.
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