Thanks for all the help guys. Strangely the problem appears to be an iso problem. I tried several iso downloads over cifs for installation, a known working cd I had burned from iso (used with no probs on xenserver) and finally I got the install working from a 2008 R2 (64) disk I unearthed from one of our MS subscription packs.
Very strange, but I must say that several attempts of downloading the iso from MS ended up in corrupt isos. I didn't need an md5 or sha test to verify as one of the downloads was 50Mb and the other was 500Mb of a 3Gb download. So I am sure there is more to this than dodgey iso files, maybe release conflicts or something, but now I can move on from installing vms to configuring them. Thanks again, Chris On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Jon Ludlam <[email protected]>wrote: > Hmm, there's nothing obvious in the VBD list - it all looks OK to me. > > Does the problem occur using XCP 0.5? > > Jon > > On 22 Dec 2010, at 10:43, Chris Percol wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have an ongoing issue in that I can't install a new Windows 2008 R2 vm > using the corresponding template on xcp 1 beta and xencentre 5.6 fp1. The vm > starts but the installation can't see a hard drive and get's stuck looking > for drivers. Below is some data taken from the vm after the failed install. > > > > May not be relevant but the box it is on has 4x1Tb drives using raid 5 on > a 3ware controller. In the 3ware bios I created a 40gb boot volume which xcp > is on and the rest on another volume (think linux sees as sda and sdb). It > has 98Gb of ram and 4x4 opteron cpus. > > > > > > uuid ( RO) : c51b981e-937f-5291-1709-5cf90bcb5669 > > vm-uuid ( RO): 0c99c71c-c07f-57a8-ff20-449bdca29ba1 > > vm-name-label ( RO): Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) > (Vanilla) > > vdi-uuid ( RO): 7333c73d-c088-4ed9-a78c-4d39a9b63007 > > vdi-name-label ( RO): > SW_DVD5_Windows_Svr_2008_R2_x64_ENG_1_ProdAct_X15-50365.ISO > > allowed-operations (SRO): attach; eject > > current-operations (SRO): > > empty ( RO): false > > device ( RO): hdd > > userdevice ( RW): 3 > > bootable ( RW): true > > mode ( RW): RO > > type ( RW): CD > > unpluggable ( RW): true > > currently-attached ( RO): false > > attachable ( RO): <expensive field> > > storage-lock ( RO): false > > status-code ( RO): 0 > > status-detail ( RO): > > qos_algorithm_type ( RW): > > qos_algorithm_params (MRW): > > qos_supported_algorithms (SRO): > > other-config (MRW): > > io_read_kbs ( RO): <expensive field> > > io_write_kbs ( RO): <expensive field> > > > > > > uuid ( RO) : 630e7dd2-c3b6-dde8-79ef-1af36ac2c53e > > vm-uuid ( RO): 0c99c71c-c07f-57a8-ff20-449bdca29ba1 > > vm-name-label ( RO): Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) > (Vanilla) > > vdi-uuid ( RO): 79c20307-fbaf-4c9a-9dd1-1c996d248874 > > vdi-name-label ( RO): Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) > (Vanilla) 0 > > allowed-operations (SRO): attach > > current-operations (SRO): > > empty ( RO): false > > device ( RO): hda > > userdevice ( RW): 0 > > bootable ( RW): false > > mode ( RW): RW > > type ( RW): Disk > > unpluggable ( RW): false > > currently-attached ( RO): false > > attachable ( RO): <expensive field> > > storage-lock ( RO): false > > status-code ( RO): 0 > > status-detail ( RO): > > qos_algorithm_type ( RW): > > qos_algorithm_params (MRW): > > qos_supported_algorithms (SRO): > > other-config (MRW): owner: > > io_read_kbs ( RO): <expensive field> > > io_write_kbs ( RO): <expensive field> > > > > Thanks, > > > > Chris > >
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