RE: [Xen-users] problems creating wondows 2003 guest

["Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dror shenkar [mailto:dror.shenkar@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 16 May 2007 14:13
> To: Petersson, Mats; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] problems creating wondows 2003 guest
> 
> so how am i supposed to install windows guest if i can't 
> switch to its console?

Well, you use the VNC/SDL window. As far as I know, you can't install
Windows without a graphics card and a monitor connected to it either, so
that's the same sort of case. 
>  
> i don't find any qemu.<pid>.log in my system

No /var/log/xen/qemu*.log at all? That's bad [or they are somewhere
else!] I usually have hundreds (or thousands - I cleaned out 4000+ this
morning!) of them. 

>  
> i don't see anything wrong in xm dmesg (attahced screen.log)

No, neither do I. 

--
Mats
>  
> Thanks, Dror
>  
> On 5/16/07, Petersson, Mats <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx> wrote: 
> 
> 
> 
>       > -----Original Message-----
>       > From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
>       > [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
>       > dror shenkar
>       > Sent: 16 May 2007 06:31 
>       > To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>       > Subject: [Xen-users] problems creating wondows 2003 guest
>       >
>       > I'm trying to create a windows 2003 guest. Now it seems that 
>       > the guest was created, but it has no state, and i get an
>       > error when trying to switch to its console (see below).
>       > I also attached the log file containing the info logged
>       > during guest creation. 
>       > Did anyone encounter this behavior?
>       >
>       > root@drors-xen:/guests# xm create w2k3.cfg
>       > Using config file "w2k3.cfg".
>       > Started domain w2k3-001
>       > root@drors-xen:/guests # xm list 
>       > Name                                      ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs
>       > State   Time(s)
>       > Domain-0                                   0     1439     2
>       > r-----    143.1
>       > w2k3-001                                   4      512     1 
>       > ------      0.0
>       > root@drors-xen:/guests# xm console 4
>       
>       In general, xm console doesn't work in fully 
> virtualized domains unless
>       you also set the OS to use serial port as console 
> (which isn't really a 
>       viable option in Windows anyways).
>       
>       I'd like to see your /var/log/xen/qemu.<pid>.log (the 
> one for the
>       qemu-dm running at the time when you start w2k3-001).
>       
>       Also check "xm dmesg" to see if it's got any errors... 
>       
>       --
>       Mats
>       > xenconsole: Could not read tty from store: No such 
> file or directory
>       >
>       > Thanks, Dror
>       >
>       >
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