Re: KVM "unhandled exit" during windows installation

[Anthony Liguori <anthony-rdkfGonbjUSkNkDKm+mE6A@public.gmane.org>]

David Abrahams wrote:
> on Sun Apr 08 2007, "Dor Laor" <dor.laor-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w-AT-public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>   
>>> http://rafb.net/p/SlXj4R45.html
>>>
>>> Is this normal?  When I restarted KVM afterwards, it seemed to restart
>>> the installation process at a point when a real machine might have
>>> rebooted anyway.
>>>       
>> This was the old behavior before we had windows restart support.
>> The latest kvm should be able to boot normally. What version are you
>> running?
>>     
>
> Hmm, whatever is in the feisty beta.  apt-cache show kvm reports the
> version as:
>
>   16-1ubuntu1
>
> which doesn't look very likely :(
>
>   
>> Anyway the workaround is just to re-execute the cmd line with boot -c.
>>     
>
>
> Does that do anything other than tell it to boot off the virtual hard
> disk?
>   

Nope.  -boot c is the default so it's identical to not passing any -boot 
parameter at all.

> I apparently have windows installed now; is that something I ought to
> do every time anyway?
>   

Nope, you're fine.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori



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