Hello,
To explore kvm installs via Virt-Manager, I tried win7 installs in 3 different hosts. All 3 have 2G of RAM or more.
Windows 7 Ultimate in 2.5 GB DVD ISO
1) Centos 5.4, AMD am2, Athlon 64 x2 4600+
works 2nd attempt after setup of Br0 (bridged network)
virt-manager-0.6.1-8.el5
kvm-83-105.el5_4.13
2) OpenSuSE 11.2, AMD am2, Athlon 64 x2 5200+
works with defaults (Br0 is setup on OS install)
virt-manager 0.8.0-5
kvm-0.11.0-4.5
3) Centos 5.4, Intel LGA 775 C2D, E7600 3.0 Ghz
fails in shelled kvm and Virt-Manager with Br0
the Intel C2D box works so well - cooler and faster then the other two - but somehow the kvm intel support seems flawed. The win7 install gets past 2 boots and issues a VM exception in vcpu0 right after the third boot.
Maybe someone else succeeded with a similar Intel setup.
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Mark
/etc/libvirt/qemu/
------------- win7kvm.xml -------------
<domain type='kvm'>
<name>win7kvm</name>
<uuid>d9113860-4731-4622-bc2e-54b656e1567a</uuid>
<memory>1048576</memory>
<currentMemory>1048576</currentMemory>
<vcpu>2</vcpu>
<os>
<type arch='i686' machine='pc'>hvm</type>
<boot dev='hd'/>
</os>
<features>
<acpi/>
<apic/>
</features>
<clock offset='localtime'/>
<on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
<on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
<on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
<devices>
<emulator>/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm</emulator>
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu'/>
<source file='/data2/kvm/win7.img'/>
<target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
</disk>
<disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
<driver name='qemu'/>
<source file='/data2/kvm/WIN7_Ultimate_EN_DVD.iso'/>
<target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/>
<readonly/>
</disk>
<interface type='bridge'>
<mac address='54:52:00:36:a2:59'/>
<source bridge='br0'/>
<model type='rtl8139'/>
</interface>
<input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
<graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes' keymap='en-us'/>
</devices>
</domain>
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