Re: virtual machines and winxp
I was running XP under KVM and, fairly recently, it stopped working.
The symptoms differ from yours; XP starts and then very quickly crashes.
I don't know if it was changes to XP or something else on my system that
triggered this.
I'm running Lenny on amd64 with a 2.6.30 kernel. My plan, when I get
the time, is to build the latest kvm and see if that helps.
Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 13:50 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
> because I have just got myself and iphone and I need to run itunes to
> back stuff up, I thought I would install windows xp in a virtual machine
> (using libvirt and associated tools).
>
> I can easily install xp and get it up and running. But as part of the
> upgrade to winxp sp2 (necessary for itunes) it somehow corrupts the disk
> image and it fails to boot. The symptoms are hanging with 100% of the
> virtual pc CPU being used.
>
> If I destroy the virtual machine and re-create it from the disk image
> file I can get the boot screen up, but it then tells me it failed to
> start and offers me a route into safe mode. Safe mode with networking
> works.
>
> If I do anything else (including going back to the previous
> configuration, I get stuck in this 100% CPU loop).
>
> I am not sure where to go next. I can roll back the image to pre sp2
> upgrade (I took a copy just prior to doing the upgrade) and that works
> fine, but as soon as I do the remote update from microsoft the image is
> corrupted and I am stuck.
>
> Googling around doesn't seem to show anyone else with this sort of
> problem (other that some ubuntu problems with KVM - but these seem to be
> related to a KVM upgrade rather than a Winxp upgrade).
>
> Any one with experience of this (I am new to it all this weekend) have
> any pointers of what to try next
>
>
>
> --
> Alan Chandler
> http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
>
>
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