I''m having some trouble converting a MS Windows 2003 server from XenServer 5.6 to Xen. What I''ve done: 1) Export of the VM from XenCenter and saved to a file 2) Converted the tar file, and re-built a raw image file 3) Wrote the final file to a LVM, fdisk -l <LVM> shows the partition table 4) Exported the LVM via iSCSI, the remote physical machine can see the partition table on the iSCSI device 5) Started the VM What I get: Normal boot up process, except when doing a normal boot, I get stuck with the black screen, windows logo, and the moving blue bar across the bottom. This continues for more than 6 hours.... ie, it hangs, though the blue bar is still moving. root@pm08:/etc/xen# xm list Name ID Mem VCPUs State Time(s) Domain-0 0 9967 6 r----- 1121.0 win2003 3 6144 2 -b---- 1154.3 Copy of the config file: kernel = "/usr/lib/xen-default/boot/hvmloader" builder = ''hvm'' memory = 6144 shadow_memory = 12 device_model = ''/usr/lib/xen-default/bin/qemu-dm'' #extra = "clocksource=jiffies" localtime = 1 name = "win2003" cpus = "1,2" # Which physical CPU''s to allow vcpus = 2 # How many Virtual CPU''s to present viridian = 1 disk = [ ''phy:/dev/disk/by-path/ip-10.66.3.12:3260-iscsi-iqn.2012-06.trojanworkforce:win2003-lun-0,hda,w'', ''file:/mnt/images/XenGPL_PV.iso,ioemu:hdc:cdrom,r'' ] boot = ''c'' sdl = 0 vnc = 1 vncviewer = 0 vncconsole = 0 vncunused = 1 stdvga = 0 usb = 1 usbdevice = ''tablet'' acpi = 1 apic = 1 on_reboot = ''restart'' on_poweroff = ''destroy'' on_crash = ''restart'' audio = 1 soundhw = ''sb16'' I''ve copied this config from another machine which is running a windows 2003 VM successfully.... root@pm08:/etc/xen# dpkg -l | grep xen ii libxen-4.1 4.1.3~rc1+hg-20120614.a9c0a89c08f2-2 Public libs for Xen ii libxenstore3.0 4.1.3~rc1+hg-20120614.a9c0a89c08f2-2 Xenstore communications library for Xen ii linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 2.6.32-45 Linux 2.6.32 for 64-bit PCs, Xen dom0 support ii xen-hypervisor-4.0-amd64 4.0.1-5.2 The Xen Hypervisor on AMD64 ii xen-linux-system-2.6-xen-amd64 3.2+45 Xen system with Linux for 64-bit PCs (dummy package) ii xen-linux-system-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 2.6.32-45 Xen system with Linux 2.6.32 on 64-bit PCs (meta-package) ii xen-linux-system-3.2.0-3-amd64 3.2.21-3 Xen system with Linux 3.2 on 64-bit PCs (meta-package) ii xen-linux-system-amd64 3.2+45 Xen system with Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package) ii xen-qemu-dm-4.0 4.0.1-2+squeeze1 Xen Qemu Device Model virtual machine hardware emulator ii xen-utils-4.0 4.0.1-5.2 XEN administrative tools ii xen-utils-common 4.1.3~rc1+hg-20120614.a9c0a89c08f2-2 Xen administrative tools - common files ii xenstore-utils 4.1.3~rc1+hg-20120614.a9c0a89c08f2-2 Xenstore utilities for Xen I get exactly the same result from Debian Stable as I do from Debian Testing (above packages are Debian Testing) Linux pm08 3.2.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Jun 28 09:07:26 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux The last few lines from xm dmesg: (XEN) Freed 176kB init memory. (XEN) traps.c:2308:d0 Domain attempted WRMSR 00000000c0010004 from 00000007:d99dc798 to 00000000:0000abcd. (XEN) physdev.c:103: dom0: wrong map_pirq type 3 (XEN) hvm.c:3129:d2 Bad HVM op 259. (XEN) hvm.c:3129:d3 Bad HVM op 259. The last few lines from /var/log/xen/qemu-dm-win2003.log XENUTIL: WARNING: CloseFrontend: timed out in XenbusWaitForBackendStateChange: /local/domain/0/backend/vfb/3/0 in state INITIALISING; retry. XENUTIL: WARNING: CloseFrontend: timed out in XenbusWaitForBackendStateChange: /local/domain/0/backend/vfb/3/0 in state INITIALISING; retry. XENUTIL: WARNING: CloseFrontend: timed out in XenbusWaitForBackendStateChange: /local/domain/0/backend/vfb/3/0 in state INITIALISING; retry. XENUTIL: WARNING: CloseFrontend: timed out in XenbusWaitForBackendStateChange: /local/domain/0/backend/vfb/3/0 in state INITIALISING; retry. XENUTIL: WARNING: CloseFrontend: timed out in XenbusWaitForBackendStateChange: /local/domain/0/backend/vfb/3/0 in state INITIALISING; retry. Just realised, this seems to repeat approx once per minute. I can boot into "safe mode" and get a working system, but obviously I need to be able to boot normally... If any additional information needs to be provided, please let me know. Can anybody suggest a solution to make this work? PS, yes, I made an iso image of all the GPLPV drivers (current version) so that once the machine boots I can install them, but I don''t seem to get far enough to install them.... Regards, Adam -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au