[Fedora-xen] Problems running xp guest

Falk Zimmermann zimmermann at it.neclab.eu
Fri Aug 24 09:53:43 UTC 2007


Thanks a lot, this fixed the problem.
Cheers,
Falk


Cole Robinson schrieb:
> Falk Zimmermann wrote:
>
>   
>>     <disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
>>       <driver name='file'/>
>>       <source file=''/>
>>       <target dev='hdc'/>
>>       <readonly/>
>>     </disk>
>>     
>
> This section is what is causing the error. With windows guests, the
> tools try to do some funky stuff so that windows can still have access
> to the install cd for the second stage of the install (after the first
> reboot.) It probably shouldn't be erroring like that so there is a bug
> somewhere, just not sure where in the chain it is.
>
> In the interim, you can get your guest to work with access to your iso
> image with:
>
> - virsh dumpxml <xmdomain> > somefile.xml
> - replace <source file=''/> with <source file='/path/to/win.iso'/> in
> the above block in somefile.xml
> - virsh undefine <xmdomain>
> - virsh define somefile.xml
>
> If you don't need access to the iso in the guest, you can go to the
> details section of the domain in virt-manager and remove hdc, which will
> get rid of the block of xml without needing to undefine/define.
>
> - Cole
>
>   
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