Re: [Xen-users] graceful windows guest shutdown/restart

[Nathan Goulding <ngoulding@xxxxxxxxx>]

Is this (old) wiki still accurate for Xen 4.1?

http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenWindowsACPI.html

Specifically: "One of the big problems of Windows XP under Xen is that Windows 
Setup chokes on Xen's ACPI, and thus you have to disable ACPI for Windows Setup 
to work."

Anyone know if that's still a problem?

-Nathan

On Dec 22, 2011, at 7:13 AM, Nathan Goulding wrote:

> I'm having some trouble getting Windows Server 2008 R2 Std/Ent to 
> consistently shutdown or restart gracefully. I have acpi enabled (it's 
> required in later versions of Windows) and I'm even executing the shutdown 
> from the guest OS itself. Inconsistently, but often enough to be consistent, 
> the next time Windows boots it will say "Windows did not shut down properly, 
> boot safe mode, normally, etc."
> 
> This is a real problem during installation as I'm installing Windows via 
> sysprep'd images, and if a hard shutdown or restart occurs during the final 
> configuration if Windows, it'll abort and say to start the installation over 
> from scratch. This happens an unscientifically measured 40-50% of the time. 
> 
> Is it possible there's a race condition somewhere, or is there a "pause 
> before destroy" setting I can enable somewhere?
> 
> I'm running Xen 4.1 on Ubuntu 11.04, and the sysprep'd images don't have the 
> GPLPV drivers installed at the time of install.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Nathan
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