Russ Purinton
2010-Dec-26 07:01 UTC
[Xen-users] Can''t boot HVM Win2k8 R2 x64 DVD ISO (Viridian?)
Hi all, I''m stuck with a peculiar problem. I have CentOS 5.5 and Xen. I have numerous Windows 2003 guests and never had this problem. An application requires SQL server 2008 which is requiring Windows Server 2008. I downloaded the 2.8 Gig install DVD ISO. I create a new guest and connect the ISO as hdc. The system starts and says "Starting Windows" but hangs and no logo image appears. I burned the same ISO to a disc and it worked fine in a physical machine. I then changed my new Guest to boot a 2K3 image and that worked fine, as well as a CentOS ISO worked fine. Back to the 2k8 ISO it hangs still at Starting Windows. Luckily I find a ton of reference material on this via google. http://forums.citrix.com/thread.jspa?threadID=240476 posts like this seem to depict and describe the problem exactly. I''ve found numerous others. I also found others where the author stated he just tried changing the system memory to random values and had success. I''ve tried everything from 8 gigs down to 512, 8 CPU''s, down to 1 CPU and all the same results. They are all referencing the xe command to set params in Citrix XenServer particularly this parameter "viridian=false". Most people seem to have good results by setting this, but I cannot find an equivalent mention for non-Citrix XenServer like my CentOS5. I have tried editing my /etc/xen/guest config file and adding viridian=0 at the bottom, but still hangs. Looking here for help. Here is my config. [root@xen1 ~]# cd /etc/xen [root@xen1 xen]# cat sql cat: sql: No such file or directory [root@xen1 xen]# cat sql1 name = "sql1" uuid = "3e45ca99-8661-69cb-3797-100edb049b77" maxmem = 512 memory = 512 vcpus = 1 builder = "hvm" kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader" boot = "c" pae = 1 acpi = 1 apic = 1 localtime = 0 on_poweroff = "destroy" on_reboot = "restart" on_crash = "restart" device_model = "/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm" sdl = 0 vnc = 1 vncunused = 1 keymap = "en-us" disk = [ "file:/var/lib/xen/images/sql.img,hda,w", ",hdc:cdrom,r" ] vif = [ "mac=00:16:36:5d:0b:48,bridge=xenbr0,script=vif-bridge" ] parallel = "none" serial = "pty" [root@xen1 xen]# _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Russ Purinton
2010-Dec-26 15:12 UTC
RE: [Xen-users] Fixed: Can''t boot HVM Win2k8 R2 x64 DVD ISO (Viridian?)
Disregard, I fixed it. #yum -y update #reboot What''s strange is that I''ve already done this not more than 2 weeks ago. ________________________________ From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com [mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Russ Purinton Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2010 2:02 AM To: xen-users@lists.xensource.com Subject: [Xen-users] Can''t boot HVM Win2k8 R2 x64 DVD ISO (Viridian?) Hi all, I''m stuck with a peculiar problem. I have CentOS 5.5 and Xen. I have numerous Windows 2003 guests and never had this problem. An application requires SQL server 2008 which is requiring Windows Server 2008. I downloaded the 2.8 Gig install DVD ISO. I create a new guest and connect the ISO as hdc. The system starts and says "Starting Windows" but hangs and no logo image appears. I burned the same ISO to a disc and it worked fine in a physical machine. I then changed my new Guest to boot a 2K3 image and that worked fine, as well as a CentOS ISO worked fine. Back to the 2k8 ISO it hangs still at Starting Windows. Luckily I find a ton of reference material on this via google. http://forums.citrix.com/thread.jspa?threadID=240476 posts like this seem to depict and describe the problem exactly. I''ve found numerous others. I also found others where the author stated he just tried changing the system memory to random values and had success. I''ve tried everything from 8 gigs down to 512, 8 CPU''s, down to 1 CPU and all the same results. They are all referencing the xe command to set params in Citrix XenServer particularly this parameter "viridian=false". Most people seem to have good results by setting this, but I cannot find an equivalent mention for non-Citrix XenServer like my CentOS5. I have tried editing my /etc/xen/guest config file and adding viridian=0 at the bottom, but still hangs. Looking here for help. Here is my config. [root@xen1 ~]# cd /etc/xen [root@xen1 xen]# cat sql cat: sql: No such file or directory [root@xen1 xen]# cat sql1 name = "sql1" uuid = "3e45ca99-8661-69cb-3797-100edb049b77" maxmem = 512 memory = 512 vcpus = 1 builder = "hvm" kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader" boot = "c" pae = 1 acpi = 1 apic = 1 localtime = 0 on_poweroff = "destroy" on_reboot = "restart" on_crash = "restart" device_model = "/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm" sdl = 0 vnc = 1 vncunused = 1 keymap = "en-us" disk = [ "file:/var/lib/xen/images/sql.img,hda,w", ",hdc:cdrom,r" ] vif = [ "mac=00:16:36:5d:0b:48,bridge=xenbr0,script=vif-bridge" ] parallel = "none" serial = "pty" [root@xen1 xen]# _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users