Re: [Xen-users] Windows 7 as guest on a physikal disk

[Jens Krause <jens.krause@xxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Joseph, I am one step further. The setting

    disk = [ 'phy:/dev/sda,hda,w' ]

will boot from the disk. Since there is grub, I can see
the grub menu in my vncviewer and I can choose Windows
(which was installed without xen). That works and Windows
is there.

But I would prefer to use

    disk = [ 'phy:/dev/sda1,hda,w' ]

as you suggested (using partition sda1 and not whole disk sda) but that 
gives me a
bios screen (VGABios) in the vncviewer saying in its last line


    Booting from Hard Disk....

but nothing happens.

Any ideas.

Thanks in advance

Jens




On 04/02/2012 09:33 PM, Joseph Glanville wrote:
> On 3 April 2012 05:06, Ken Cobler<kcobler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>    
> > Quoting Joseph Glanville<joseph.glanville@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> >      
> > > On 2 April 2012 22:42, Ken Cobler<kcobler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > >        
> > > > Jen,
> > > >
> > > > I used dd to copy the physical device to a linux file.
> > > >
> > > > Ken
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >          
> > > > > Hi Ken,
> > > > >
> > > > > thanks for the reply, I want to try that. How did you copy
> > > > > the Windows from disk to file? Did you make a raw copy
> > > > > using 'dd' or did you copy the files using 'cp' on the loop-mounted
> > > > > file system?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks
> > > > >
> > > > > Jens
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On 03/22/2012 03:05 PM, Ken Cobler wrote:
> > > > >            
> > > > > > Quoting Jens Krause<jens.krause@xxxxxxxx>:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >              
> > > > > > > Hallo,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I have an installed Windows 7 on one partition
> > > > > > > and running Debain Squeeze on the other. Both are 64 bit.
> > > > > > > I want to use Xen to run Windows as virtual guest from
> > > > > > > a physical disk. Once I get this working the Window will
> > > > > > > never be booted directly.
> > > > > > >                
> > > Did you install the Windows guest via Xen or did you install it baremetal?
> > >        
> > I installed Windows guest via Xen.
> >
> > Ken Cobler
> >
> >      
> First of all don't call xm create with -c, this will connect you to
> the serial console which Windows is most definitely not listening on.
>
> Second, can you connect to the guest via VNC as it's booting?
> By the looks of it it is creating the guest successfully but then the
> BIOS is timing out or something, probably no bootable device or
> similar error.
> You would have had to do this to get the guest installed so it should
> still be working.
>
> Lastly change your disk line to use a full path like thus:
> disk = [ 'phy:/dev/sda1,hda,w' ]
>
> I am not sure that it being a partition vs something else is going to
> cause you issues or not. It really shouldn't though.
>
> Joseph.
>
>
>

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