Hi, My environment: Hardware: Intel Conroe based, VT enabled Xen: 3.0.2, SMP kernel Base OS: RH 4 Update 3, x86_64, SMP kernel Guest OS: Try to install x86_64 Windows 2003 using hvmloader booting from CD on to a disk image file. Configuration file: pae=0, acpi=0 or 1, apic=0 or 1 Failure symptom: Windows installation CD will boot and files are loaded, but For acpi=0 or 1, apic=0, the installation hung at "Setup is starting Windows", VM status is b. For acpi=0 or 1, apic=1, the installation hung at "Setup is starting Windows", VM status is c Questions: 1. Does xen 3.0.2 support x86_64 for Windows? 2. If yes, what do I need to modify to make it work. BTW: x86 seems worked just fine. Sam _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Petersson, Mats
2006-Sep-21 16:39 UTC
RE: [Xen-users] Installing x86_64 Windows 2003 server
You definitely will need PAE=1 in your configuration. Whether it actually works in 3.0.2 or WITH that is a different matter - there may be other changes in the -unstable tree that are required [or it may not work at all! - But I seem to remember seeing some patches a while back indicating that x64 Windows was working with those changes...] I would probably try a -unstable version - it''s not terribly unstable at the moment, because the tree is frozen to form 3.0.3, so anything "revolutionary" is prevented from going into the tree... -- Mats ________________________________ From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com [mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Chu, Sam Sent: 21 September 2006 17:30 To: xen-users@lists.xensource.com Cc: Chu, Sam Subject: [Xen-users] Installing x86_64 Windows 2003 server Hi, My environment: Hardware: Intel Conroe based, VT enabled Xen: 3.0.2, SMP kernel Base OS: RH 4 Update 3, x86_64, SMP kernel Guest OS: Try to install x86_64 Windows 2003 using hvmloader booting from CD on to a disk image file. Configuration file: pae=0, acpi=0 or 1, apic=0 or 1 Failure symptom: Windows installation CD will boot and files are loaded, but For acpi=0 or 1, apic=0, the installation hung at "Setup is starting Windows", VM status is b. For acpi=0 or 1, apic=1, the installation hung at "Setup is starting Windows", VM status is c Questions: 1. Does xen 3.0.2 support x86_64 for Windows? 2. If yes, what do I need to modify to make it work. BTW: x86 seems worked just fine. Sam _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users