Re: Problem starting HVM guest in Xen 4.3 RC6 when NOT using device_model_version="qemu-xen-traditional"

[Ian Murray <murrayie@yahoo.co.uk>]

On 29/06/13 13:36, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> Saturday, June 29, 2013, 1:33:06 PM, you wrote:
>
>
>>> Also, in 'var/log/xen/qemu-dm-win.log' it says:-
>>>
>>> qemu-system-i386: Property 'isa-fdc.driveA' can't find value ''
>>>
>>> Which might be my overall issue.
>>>
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>
>> When I manually comment out the patch "tools/libxl: Disable useless
>> empty floppy drive with qemu-xen"  -
>> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-02/msg00391.html
>> ....I get...
>> root@xen6:~/xensource/xen# xl create /etc/xen/win
>> Parsing config from /etc/xen/win
>> xc: info: VIRTUAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT:
>>     Loader:        0000000000100000->000000000019eac8
>>     Modules:       0000000000000000->0000000000000000
>>     TOTAL:         0000000000000000->000000007f800000
>>     ENTRY ADDRESS: 0000000000100000
>> xc: info: PHYSICAL MEMORY ALLOCATION:
>>     4KB PAGES: 0x0000000000000200
>>     2MB PAGES: 0x00000000000003fb
>>     1GB PAGES: 0x0000000000000000
>> Daemon running with PID 22958
>
>> Starts up fine and is accessible via VNC (albeit with a stupid
>> resolution). I am not sure why this has affected me and not everyone
>> else. I assume "not everyone" for obvious reasons.
> You are not having any line that mentions "floppy" in your .cfg ?
>
>

Only in a comment:-

builder='hvm'
memory = '2048'
name = 'win'
# boot on floppy (a), hard disk (c) or CD-ROM (d)
boot='c'
disk = [ 'phy:/dev/xen6/win-root,hda,w' ]
vcpus=2
vnc=1
vncviewer=0
vnclisten="0.0.0.0"
vncpasswd='win'
vif=['mac=00:16:31:01:01:01,bridge=eth0']
on_poweroff = 'destroy'
on_reboot   = 'restart'
on_crash    = 'restart'
usbdevice='tablet'