Re: [Xen-users] HVM success reports required for wiki

[Franco Spinelli <frspin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Klaus Kudielka ha scritto:
> After digging through the mailing list archives, I finally succeeded
> getting also Windows XP to work under xen 3.0.3 on an ASUS M2NPV-VM.
>
> Summary:
> ========
>
> MB:  ASUS M2NPV-VM, BIOS 0504 (GeForce 6150 + nForce 430)
> CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3500+
> RAM: 2 x 512MB
>
> Distro:    FC6
> Kernel:    kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6
> Xen:       xen-3.0.3-0.1.rc3
> Guest OS:  Windows XP Home SP2 EN
>
> Installation notes:
> ===================
>
> 1. I had to use qemu (yum install qemu) for the first-stage CD install,
>    otherwise the cursor keys required in the next step didn't work.
> 2. When Windows asked to press F6 for additional drivers,
>    I had to press F5 and to select "Standard PC".
>    Otherwise I consistently got the following errors:
>      a) acpi=apic=0: VM hangs during "Starting Windows"
>      b) acpi=apic=1: VM hangs with blank screen at first boot from HD
> 3. Qemu needed a long time to copy the first set of files. When qemu
>    finally re-booted its VM, I terminated it with Ctrl-C and began booting
>    the Xen HVM from the virtual harddisk.
>
> This way I got past both the "Starting Windows" and the "blank screen"
> hangs, and the remaining installation (on Xen HVM) continued smoothly.
> The stame story obviously happened to other people as well:
>
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2006-06/msg00452.html
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2006-November/msg00026.html
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2006-November/msg00056.html
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2006-November/msg00158.html
>
> I also want to add that I consistently faced both hangs, regardless
> whether I used the FC6 xen packages, xen-3.0.3 binary tarball, or
> xen-3.0.3 compiled from source.
>
> Conclusions:
> ============
>
> * ASUS M2NPV-VM works perfectly with HVM
> * Windows XP (at least SP2) hardware auto-detection gets seriously 
>   confused by Xen HVM
> * Cursor keys don't work on Xen HVM after pressing F5
> * Many people have suffered from the same problem, so this should
>   go into the FAQ
>
> Best regards, Klaus
I confirm successfull installation for both 32 and 64 bit version of 
Ubuntu Edgy, using Xen from Ubuntu Edgy repository, on my ASUS M2NPV-VM, 
and XP SP2 image CD.
I have another ASUS MB, a P5LD2-VM DH, based on Intel chipset and with a 
Core 2 Duo CPU.
Using same OS (Ubuntu Edgy) and same XP SP2 image CD, on this MB I can 
get XP up and running without any problem. Installation go smoothly from 
start to completition.
So, XP hardaware auto-detection get seriously confused by Xen HVM only 
for some MB (and ASUS M2NPV-VM is one of this) and with AMD CPU.
Regards

Franco


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