hello,
I'm a bit of a failure at running windows xp in the hvm
mode. to be
honest nothing went the way it should have on my notebook
with turion
64 x2 processor inside.
first i was unable to install windows. the only combination
of
parameters which did not lead to freeze in text phase of
instalation
of the xp system was acpi=1, apic=1 and vcpu=2. but even
that
combination resulted in an error message produced by windows
installer
somewhere in the middle of instalation process. i used qemu
alone to
install the system without any problems. btw win xp runs
surprisingly
fast with that emulator.
second at windows startup all that could be seen was a blank
screen of
console. if i tried to run in safe mode, initial text
messages
appeared, but i was unable to choose the right option,
because i had
no control over my keyboard (as if key events went
unnoticed). and it
took ages to reach the counter to zero (which supposed to be
set to 30
s - that amount of time you have to decide what mode windows
should
run in). afterwards well known blank screen appeared. that's
all. i
tried in vain any reasonable combinatiation of the following
domain
parameters: acpi, apic and vcpu (eg. apic=0 and vcpu=2 was
excluded).
the rest were unchanged.
i use fedora core 6: xen 3.0.3-rc3 and kernel 2.6.18.1 with
a 3
patches that improve thermal and fan control (more details
at
http:
//bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7122 and
http:
//bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5534). however
using
unpatched kernel results in the same behaviour of windows
domain. i
attached several dumps which you might find useful.
any clue what went wrong?
--
aleksander
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