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To: Martin Goldstone <m.j.goldstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: it works :) was-> Re: [Xen-users] WinXP installation quits with error: "...windows has been shut down to prevent damage..."
From: Ana <christiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:41:16 -0700
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It works!

Thanks Martin.

It's installed and functioning.  I can shut it down and start it
again...  No problems.  The network isn't working yet, but that should
be a matter of reading the FAQs and tinkering.

some back story:
I downloaded the latest 3.1 sources.  After much compiling, installing
libs, installing compilers, and more compiling and re-compiling, I was
able to boot the new kernel and begin testing.  Once I finished ever so
sloooowly figuring out that VNC seems to be required in 3.1, I installed
a vnc client and server and was soon able to see that WindowsXP was
waiting for me to press F8 and begin the install.

I'm singing and dancing. :)  Xen is awesome.

- Ana


On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 09:29:29AM +0100, Martin Goldstone wrote:
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> I've got a few suggestions you could try:
> 
> 1) Try Xen 3.1.  I've found it's support for HVM guests to be much
> better than previous versions.
> 
> 2) Play with your APIC, ACPI and PAE settings.  I can't recall what the
> defaults are in the version of Xen that you're running, but you might
> want to try setting them all to 0 at first, to see if that makes a
> difference.
> 
> 3) Hit F5 when Windows setup is asking you to press F6 to load
> additional SCSI drivers.  This allows you to select which HAL Windows
> will use. Standard PC is probably the one most likely to install
> properly, but you may face issues due to the lack of ACPI support
> (Windows may display "It is now safe to turn off your computer" when
> shutting down the VM instead of just "powering off").  Other choices
> will probably include ACPI Uniprocessor PC, and maybe some
> Multiprocessor/SMP entries.  Playing with different settings for
> suggestion 2 along with different selections here should get you somewhere.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Martin
> 
> Ana wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > I'm trying to install WinXP under Xen.  I'm running the Xen packages
> > that come with Debian testing: "lenny".  I have it setup well enough to
> > get WinXP to boot and start its installation sequence.  roughly:
> > 
> > - it "examines hardware" and yadda yadda
> > - then says "Starting Windows XP"
> > - ... and, then it spins that domain's cpu time up to 100% for 5 minutes
> > - before printing the following error and shutting down
> > 
> > the error text:
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent
> > damage to your computer.
> > 
> > if this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen,
> > restart you computer.  If this screen appears again, follow
> > these steps:
> > 
> > Check for viruses on your computer.  Remove any newly installed
> > hard drives or hard drive controllers.  Check your hard drive
> > to make sure it is properly configured and terminated.
> > Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then
> > restart your computer.
> > 
> > Technical information:
> > 
> > *** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF7c7a524,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > my winxp domain config:
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> > kernel = "/usr/lib/xen-3.0.3-1/boot/hvmloader"
> > builder = 'hvm'
> > memory = 1024
> > name = "winxp"
> > vcpus = 1
> > vif = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr0' ]
> > disk = [ 'file:/var/xen/images/WinXP.img,ioemu:hda,w', 
> > 'file:/var/xen/bootcd-images/winxp.iso,hdc:cdrom,r' ]
> > device_model = '/usr/lib/xen-3.0.3-1/bin/qemu-dm'
> > ne2000=0
> > boot='d'
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > 
> > I'm not sure where to go from here.  Should I download the latest Xen
> > software and try that?  Is there anything else I can try?  I'm not bad
> > at "hacking" software, so doing some testing and debugging is not out of
> > the question.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > - Ana

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