Re: [Xen-users] how to install a vm from iso or cdrom

[Mike Wright <mike.wright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/11/2011 09:10 AM, Mike Wright wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Running fedora14 with xen-4.1.1 and linux-3.0.0-rc3.
>
> I'm trying to install XP into a domU and have tried all the recipes I
> could find on google and haven't had any success so far. Available
> resources are the install CD, copy of the CD as an iso, and a loopback
> mounted copy of the iso as /dev/loop0.
>
> builder="hvm"
> kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
> memory = 256
> name = "vm8" ### xp pro sp2 ###
> vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3e:08:22:01, bridge=DMZ' ]
> disk = [ 'phy:/dev/OneTB/vm8,xvda1,w' ,
> 'phy:/dev/loop0, hda:cdrom, r' ] <-------------------
disk = [ 'file:/etc/xen/boot/WinXP-Pro-sp2.iso,xvdb:cdrom,r' ]

> vfb = [ 'vnc=1' ]
>
> I alway error with:
>
> libxl: error: libxl.c:946:libxl_device_disk_add Invalid or unsupported
> virtual disk identifier hda
> cannot add disk 1 to domain: -6
> libxl: error: libxl_dm.c:747:libxl__destroy_device_model Couldn't find
> device model's pid: No such file or directory
> libxl: error: libxl.c:738:libxl_domain_destroy
> libxl__destroy_device_model failed for 24
>
> Any helpers out there?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Wright
>
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