Comments on: Vista on Xen: Using NE2000 in favor to RTL8139

By: Gerhold

Gerhold — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 19:56:34 +0000

This is probably the perfect article that ever cross my reference. I do not see why anyone should disagree. It may be too easy #for them# to comprehend…anyway good work i’m coming back here for More Nice Stuff!!

By: Mohana

Mohana — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:02:34 +0000

Thank you for telling. I have not in fact have time to learn this yet but I’ve bookmarked it so that I can look over it later.

By: Gianpaolo Del Matto

Gianpaolo Del Matto — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:06:16 +0000

@ chaitanya

Well, I don’t know what’s the reason for this.
Personally I’d say it should work when it shows up in ‘xm list’, but on the other I’m not familiar with either your system and the particular software releases it runs.

Maybe having a look to the logfiles may help?

Greetings,
Gianpaolo

By: chaitanya

chaitanya — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:02:10 +0000

it is good article…but I changed my svm file as u specified. but changing the file when i try to start domain it getting disappear. but xm list showing that dom-U is in runnig state.

By: Gianpaolo Del Matto

Gianpaolo Del Matto — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 08:15:20 +0000

@ thomas

I did install Vista Business multiple times in Xen in both 32-bit and 64-bit HVM emulation without any problems.

Here’s my config file I use for running Vista:

[..]
name = “Vista32″
builder = “hvm”
memory = “1024″
disk = [ 'file:/mnt/vm/Xen/Vista32/disk1_vol1.img,hda,w', ]
vif = [ 'type=ioemu, mac=00:16:3e:0c:6e:18, bridge=xenbr0, model=ne2k_pci', ]
uuid = “7595f0f3-c6bc-9641-8d3e-43129b7405c9″
device_model = “/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm”
kernel = “/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader”
vnc=1
vncunused=1
apic=1
acpi=1
pae=1

vcpus=2
serial = “pty” # enable serial console
on_reboot = ‘destroy’
on_crash = ‘destroy’
on_powerof = ‘destroy’
[..]

And this one I used for setup:

[..]
name = “Vista32″
builder = “hvm”
memory = “1024″
disk = [ 'file:/mnt/vm/Xen/Vista32/disk1_vol1.img,hda,w', 'phy:/dev/hdc,hdc:cdrom,r', ]
boot=”d”
vif = [ 'type=ioemu, mac=00:16:3e:0c:6e:18, bridge=xenbr0, model=ne2k_pci', ]
uuid = “7595f0f3-c6bc-9641-8d3e-43129b7405c9″
device_model = “/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm”
kernel = “/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader”
vnc=1
vncunused=1
apic=1
acpi=1
pae=1

vcpus=2
serial = “pty” # enable serial console
on_reboot = ‘restart’
on_crash = ‘restart’
on_powerof = ‘destroy’
[..]

The latter one I use during the initial setup and during the first reboot. I changed only boot=”cda” for the first reboot, but still keept the setup cd available.

From the Vista point of view the setup was done regurlary, e.g. no special switches or workarounds used.

There’s maybe to things to notice:

- I used only harddisk images, not real partitions, for HVM emulation with Windows
- I used only MSDN versions, never OEM versions, for an install

My further specs are:

Intel Core 2 Duo 6420, 2 GB RAM, limited Xen Dom0 to 512 MB via kernel args, left rest available to Xen DomU’s.

Xen Dom0 runs Fedora Core 6 x86_64 with Xen 3.0.3.

HTH,

Gianpaolo

By: thomas boltze

thomas boltze — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:56:57 +0000

Hi Gianpaolo,
This is a nice article. I am trying to get Vista running on CentOS5 with an HVM enabled AMD box and get stuck after the installation and reboot:
I get through install and can create a user name, then after reboot (I switch it to boot from hdd) Vista starts, but comes with an error message about boot device Not CD, then for a split second it shows a screen with a choice between Vista, NT and DOS and then the screen becomes a colorful mess and the VM destroys itself.

I tried to find more detailed instructions for getting vista up and running, but have not found any. Can you help ?

Thanks,
Thomas