Re: Windows XenU creation

[Mats Petersson <mats@planetcatfish.com>]

At 18:12 30/07/2007, shacky wrote:
> > I still don't think the HVM BIOS supports booting from SCSI/SATA
> > drives. Try using "hda" instead of "sda" (and of course change your
> > "hda" for the CDROM to perhaps "hdb").
>
>Ok, thank you.
>I changed "sda1" to "hda" and now the VM is booting up.
>But windows installation doesn't start, it hangs at "Windows starting".
>If I change "hda" to "hda1" the Windows installation starts, but it
>doesn't recognise any hard disk drive.


"hda1" isn't a valid option for HVM domains, so I don't see why that 
would work better.


>Another problem is that if I try to connect to Xen with UltraVNC
>Viewer it doesn't work (the vncviewer.exe process is at 99% of CPU on
>my Windows client) and it hangs.
>If I use RealVNC it works.

I guess that means that UltraVNC is broken for this particular use - 
but I know nothing about different VNC servers - I've mostly been 
using SDL over X-windows.

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Mats