[Xen-ia64-devel] VTI Windows installation and booting HowTo

["You, Yongkang" <yongkang.you@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

VTI Windows 2003 has brought up in IA64 platform for a long time. Recently, by 
community and Intel's several important bugs fixing, SMP VTI Windows 
(8vcpus) could pass HCT stress testing for 24 hours.

Here, I provide some steps for VTI Windows 2k3 installation and booting. 

Environment:
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Platform: Tiger4
Processor: Itanium 2 Processor with VT supported. 
Logic Processors number: 16 (4 processors with Due Core + HT)
PAL version: 8.15
Service OS: RHEL4u3 IA64 SMP with 2 VCPUs
VTI Guest OS: Windows 2k3
Xen IA64 Unstable tree: 12014:9c649ca5c1cc
Xen Schedule: credit
VTI Guest Firmware Flash.fd.2006.11.07 MD5: 
        797c2d6c391a6fc6f16d267e01b382f8

Installation: 
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Windows Server 2003 SP1 installation in VTI: 
1. Prepare a physical disk or a disk image file. 

( This know-how uses /dev/sdc physical disk to install Windows ) 
Modify 'disk' and 'boot' line in /etc/xen/xmexample.vti as 
====>
disk = [ 'phy:/dev/sdc,hda,w', \
'file:/var/images/winsvr2003sp1.ISO,hdc:cdrom,r' ] 
#if using disk image: #disk = [ 'file:/var/images/winXP.img,hda,w', \
'phy:/dev/cdrom,hdc:cdrom,r' ] 
boot='d' 
<=====

2. xm create /etc/xen/xmexample.vti 

Once in the VTi Domain 
In EFI shell, go into CDROM. It can be either fs0: or fs1: 
        fs0:
Run setupldr.efi to start installation. (use quickest installation) :
        setupldr.efi
After Windows installation copying files, it will do the 1st reboot. 
(In recent Changeset, there is a bug will cause VTI domain reboot failed. If it 
automatically reboot fail, could manually create VTI again.)

3. In EFI shell, go to fs0: ; run "cp efi\microsoft\winnt50\boot0000 ." 

4. Go to msutil\ ; run "nvrboot"; 

        input "I" -> "boot0000" -> "ENTER" -> "Q"; exit EFI shell; continue. 

5. Windows will the perform installation. It takes >5 hours to complete 
installation. VTI domain still met slow CD-ROM issue, which will cause VTI 
domain installation slowly. In recent Changeset VTI performance depredates a 
lot, the installation might be slower.

6. After installation, follow step #4, you can boot VTI Windows 2003 SP1.

7. With guest firmware Flash.fd.2006.11.07, VTI Windows can be automatically 
boot without step #4 by adding a file startup.nsh in its 1st vfat partition 
(fs0:\startup.nsh). 
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#mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sdc1
#cat >/mnt/sdc1/startup.nsh <<EOF
bcfg boot addf 1 fs0:\boot0000 "windows"
EOF
#umount /mnt/sdc1
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Best Regards,
Yongkang (Kangkang) 永康

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