On Sunday, May 7, 2017 at 3:10:55 PM UTC-4, cooloutac wrote:
> On Saturday, May 6, 2017 at 10:07:53 PM UTC-4, Gaiko wrote:
> > No responses? Is there any more information that I could post that might
> > make it easier to diagnose this issue?
> >
> >
> > For what its worth, I was able to make a non-template winVM on another
> > computer (before I quite understood that I could make a WinTemplate) and
> > then restored it onto my current computer and it works well enough, but I
> > really think the best model for me would be using a wintemplate if
> > possible, and was hoping to figure out why the intstalling win7 on this
> > win7-x64-template isn't working?
> >
> >
> > Thoughts would be apprecaited.
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Gaiko Kyofusho <gaikokuji...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I am trying to setup a win7 template. I started with the:
> >
> > qvm-create --hvm-template win7-x64-template -l green
> >
> > which seemed to work well enough, then tried to install windows (win7 pro
> > x64). When I try using:
> >
> > qvm-start win7-x64-template --cdrom=/home/user/win7.iso
> >
> > It
> > starts up and then hangs (I've tried leaving it overnight, no progress)
> > at the glowing starting windows. I then searched around and found two
> > posts and the github work around of
> >
> > cp /var/lib/qubes/appvms/win7/win7.conf /tmp
> >
> > then mod'ing the <model type='xen' vram='16384' /> line to cirrus then
> > running
> >
> > qvm-start win7-x64-template --cdrom=/home/user/win7.iso
> > --custom-config=/tmp/win7.conf
> >
> > now I get an error:
> >
> > --> Loading the VM (type = TemplateHVM)...
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "/usr/bin/qvm-start", line 136, in <module>
> > main()
> > File "/usr/bin/qvm-start", line 120, in main
> >
> > xid = vm.start(verbose=options.verbose,
> > preparing_dvm=options.preparing_dvm, start_guid=not options.noguid,
> > notify_function=tray_notify_generic if options.tray else None)
> > File
> > "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/qubes/modules/02QubesTemplateHVm.py",
> > line 94, in start
> > return super(QubesTemplateHVm, self).start(*args, **kwargs)
> > File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/qubes/modules/01QubesHVm.py",
> > line 335, in start
> > return super(QubesHVm, self).start(*args, **kwargs)
> > File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/qubes/modules/000QubesVm.py",
> > line 1972, in start
> > self.libvirt_domain.createWithFlags(libvirt.VIR_DOMAIN_START_PAUSED)
> > File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1059, in
> > createWithFlags
> > if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreateWithFlags() failed',
> > dom=self)
> > libvirt.libvirtError: internal error: libxenlight failed to create new
> > domain 'win7'
> >
> > thoughts?
>
> sorry man i have no experience making a win7 template only hvm. There is a
> guy around here named Drew white who has experience doing this maybe you can
> message him.
No worries, thanks for letting me know. I will probably try tinkering a bit
more and hold off bugging Drew, if figure if he hasn't answered then he
probably has a reason. Cheers.
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