Kyle thanks so much. I was able to install a program this AM because of
your info. It really had me going. Sorry it took me so long to get
back to you, but I had a houseguest stop by last night after I started
the LUG conversation and he didn't leave until almost 11:15PM.
Another question on this WXP guest setup. I have not done a Windows
online update yet wondering if it might hose things up. Is is OK to do
the update? The OS I'm using is XP Pro w SP2 included.
Thanks so much for your help. It is greatly appreciated.
Whit
Kyle Gonzales wrote:
Whit,
The issue is with the way that KVM and Xen currently work. They do
not auto-scan for CD-ROM on "insert" or things like that. The "CDROM"
could be an ISO image for all the hypervisor cares, as long as it
something the OS could recognize as a CDROM.
The trade-off for this is that you need to have whatever you choose to
use for the CDROM image either available or in the CDROM drive on the
physical machine on boot of the VM. When you no longer need a CD or
ISO to be made available to the VM, then shutdown the VM, disable the
CDROM device in Virtual Machine Manager, and reboot.
I understand that this is not necessarily intuitive, but it is the way
it currently works. Both hypervisors are much more server/workstation
oriented, and so do not necessarily have the functionality of a
desktop oriented option like the other ones mentioned (VMWare Player,
VirtualBox). However, KVM is part of the Linux kernel (unlike VMWare
and VirtualBox), and is has good performance on modern hardware.
Whit Hansell wrote:
Sorry, I messed up just then. Forgot to do a reply all to get it to
the lug too and didn't answer your question re the install.
Yes the install went flawlessly. Ran into problems when I shut it
down and went to restart it and found out about the cd needing to be
in the drive for it to work. thanks.
Whit
Hey thanks Kyle,
When I open up the VMM and hit run w. no cd in the drive, it immediately
throws up an error ---
Error starting domain: internal error QEMU quit during console start
QEMU could not open disk image /dev/sr0
Details:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 531, in
run_domain
vm.startup()
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 380, in
startup
self.vm.create()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 262, in create
if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed',
dom=self)
libvirtError: internal error QEMU quit during console startup
qemu: could not open disk image /dev/sr0
note from whit
(/dev/sr0 is the source path according to the hardware list in the vmm
and the target is hdc for the cd drive.)
Does it make any sense to you? Thanks for the reply. Your help is
greatly appreciated. If you know any other way to do the install I'll
even try that. I just used this one because it was all over the net so
figured it would be ok.
Cheers.
Whit
Kyle Gonzales wrote:
What exactly happens when there is no CD in the drive? Does it throw
an error? Did the initial Windows install complete without errors?
On Monday, April 19, 2010, Whit Hansell <[email protected]> wrote:
Hey guys and gals,
I'm totally frustrumated w. this virtual stuff. Love the concept and
have made strides successfully but have run into a big blank wall.
I'm using KVM and the Virtual Machine Manager GUI to set up a guest
WinXP system on my Debian AMD64 system. I've taken the time to set
aside 20G of space for virtual machines and have succesfully set up
WinXP on an 8G slice w. NTFS in an .img file. I've got internet
access
and sound need to access the CD/dvd drive to install some Windows
programs which is the whole reason for the Windows virtual system. I
have found that in order for the WinXP to even run I need to have a cd
in the drive. Blank or no. Doesn't make a difference. It's not
being
read anyway; it just has to be there. And I cannot use the cd
drive to
install any programs because according to the early developers,
they had
to leave it open because of the need for Windows to reboot to
finish the
installation. It means that in this case, the cd/dvd drive is useless
to me except to hold a blank cd so I can start Windows.
Has anyone found a workaround for this? I've googled all over the
place
and only found the one instance where this situation is even mentioned
and they say I can use the menu and the eject button to remove the cd
and close the drive. But it does not work. Nor do the Crtl+Alt+#
sets
work for me.
Any recommends will be much appreciated. I've been fooling around
with
this for a couple of weeks and have not found the answer.
TIA and thanks for being here for all of us whether anyone knows the
answer to this mess or not. I learn from all of you.
Whit
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