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Re: [Xen-API] XCP 1.0 Beta - Unable to create Windows 2008 R2 64 vm

Hmm, there's nothing obvious in the VBD list - it all looks OK to me. 

Does the problem occur using XCP 0.5?

Jon

On 22 Dec 2010, at 10:43, Chris Percol wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have an ongoing issue in that I can't install a new Windows 2008 R2 vm 
> using the corresponding template on xcp 1 beta and xencentre 5.6 fp1. The vm 
> starts but the installation can't see a hard drive and get's stuck looking 
> for drivers. Below is some data taken from the vm after the failed install.
> 
> May not be relevant but the box it is on has 4x1Tb drives using raid 5 on a 
> 3ware controller. In the 3ware bios I created a 40gb boot volume which xcp is 
> on and the rest on another volume (think linux sees as sda and sdb). It has 
> 98Gb of ram and 4x4 opteron cpus. 
> 
> 
> uuid ( RO)                        : c51b981e-937f-5291-1709-5cf90bcb5669
>                   vm-uuid ( RO): 0c99c71c-c07f-57a8-ff20-449bdca29ba1
>             vm-name-label ( RO): Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) (Vanilla)
>                  vdi-uuid ( RO): 7333c73d-c088-4ed9-a78c-4d39a9b63007
>            vdi-name-label ( RO): 
> SW_DVD5_Windows_Svr_2008_R2_x64_ENG_1_ProdAct_X15-50365.ISO
>        allowed-operations (SRO): attach; eject
>        current-operations (SRO): 
>                     empty ( RO): false
>                    device ( RO): hdd
>                userdevice ( RW): 3
>                  bootable ( RW): true
>                      mode ( RW): RO
>                      type ( RW): CD
>               unpluggable ( RW): true
>        currently-attached ( RO): false
>                attachable ( RO): <expensive field>
>              storage-lock ( RO): false
>               status-code ( RO): 0
>             status-detail ( RO): 
>        qos_algorithm_type ( RW): 
>      qos_algorithm_params (MRW): 
>  qos_supported_algorithms (SRO): 
>              other-config (MRW): 
>               io_read_kbs ( RO): <expensive field>
>              io_write_kbs ( RO): <expensive field>
> 
> 
> uuid ( RO)                        : 630e7dd2-c3b6-dde8-79ef-1af36ac2c53e
>                   vm-uuid ( RO): 0c99c71c-c07f-57a8-ff20-449bdca29ba1
>             vm-name-label ( RO): Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) (Vanilla)
>                  vdi-uuid ( RO): 79c20307-fbaf-4c9a-9dd1-1c996d248874
>            vdi-name-label ( RO): Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) (Vanilla) 0
>        allowed-operations (SRO): attach
>        current-operations (SRO): 
>                     empty ( RO): false
>                    device ( RO): hda
>                userdevice ( RW): 0
>                  bootable ( RW): false
>                      mode ( RW): RW
>                      type ( RW): Disk
>               unpluggable ( RW): false
>        currently-attached ( RO): false
>                attachable ( RO): <expensive field>
>              storage-lock ( RO): false
>               status-code ( RO): 0
>             status-detail ( RO): 
>        qos_algorithm_type ( RW): 
>      qos_algorithm_params (MRW): 
>  qos_supported_algorithms (SRO): 
>              other-config (MRW): owner: 
>               io_read_kbs ( RO): <expensive field>
>              io_write_kbs ( RO): <expensive field>
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris


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