From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mats Petersson Subject: Re: Windows XenU creation Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:15:50 +0100 Message-ID: <46ae1cdf.2115300a.51e9.3d43@mx.google.com> References: <7fedbc910707300918i64cd3d45s7c92da0d458156cb@mail.gmail.com> <46ae1139.287c420a.7fbd.ffff84a2@mx.google.com> <7fedbc910707301012n3495cb25p15f65a0d681c180@mail.gmail.com> <7fedbc910707301012n3495cb25p15f65a0d681c180@mail.gmail.com > Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Return-path: In-Reply-To: <7fedbc910707301012n3495cb25p15f65a0d681c180@mail.gmail.com > References: <7fedbc910707300918i64cd3d45s7c92da0d458156cb@mail.gmail.com> <46ae1139.287c420a.7fbd.ffff84a2@mx.google.com> <7fedbc910707301012n3495cb25p15f65a0d681c180@mail.gmail.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: shacky , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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. -- Mats