Thanks Kyle,
Unfortunately I can't be at the meeting tonite. I have a previous
engagement set up. I'm going to see if I can get the day of the week
changed in the future cuz I would love to come to a JaxLug meeting and
meet you guys.
I do thank you for your help tho and appreciated your offer to possibly
get a WXP VM setup to help me out. If you don't get it done, not to
worry but I do very much appreciate the thot'.
I'm in the process of trying to figure out now how to set up printing on
the guest. I don't see an LPT port being set up in the hardware list
and tried to install an hp720C and supposedly got it "set up" but it
won't print and I believe it's because there is no signal going thru the
lpt port. I think I got the driver set up ck.
I've found a piece on qemy-kvm man page that states something about
usint "option" -printer /dev/parport# and I've got a /dev/parport0 but
don't know where to put it. I think the winXP.xml file but am going to
keep googling to see if I can find more info.
I tried to add hardware thru the WMM/VM console but it didn't show an
output device. I'm going to try to keep checking it out. But if you
can help me here I'd appreciate that too.
I'm gonna see what else I can find about printing from a guest in kvm.
Thanks again and hope to see you at a later meeting. I'd enjoy meeting
all of you guys.
Whit
Kyle Gonzales wrote:
Whit,
Doing a Windows update should have no effect. If I have time today, I
may get a Windows VM install added to my Fedora demo. We'll see how
the day goes. :)
If you show up tonight, we can talk a bit more about KVM in person.
Whit Hansell wrote:
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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