On Sun, June 8, 2014 19:21, Eliezer Croitoru wrote:
> I am using Centos 6.5 as a kvm hypervisor with local ssd disks in raid
> and with glusterfs based storage for couple disk images.
> I have tried to install Windows 7 from ISO and it seems to pass the
> first stage of the installation which installs the basic files and also
> the first reboot.
> After that the installation is almost finished and the desktop should be
> up and running after a reboot but instead the Windows 7 machine gets
> paused before windows shows the windows 7 logo at the boot sequence.
>
> I have tried to find for a record of the issue in the past but found
> only tiny records which I did not understood from, if it was solved or not.
> The kvm host has 16GB of ram and 100GB of disk space.
> For this specific host I have used a disk image ontop of glusterfs but
> the same happens ontop of glusterfs and ontop of local disks.
>
> I have an ubuntu kvm host with less RAM and I can install windows server
> 2012 (which I was unable to install on the Centos 6.5 kvm host both 2012
> + windows 8 + windows 7).
>
> Two things:
> If anyone had or has the same issue please notify me.
> If anyone has a solution please share it.
>
> Thanks,
> Eliezer
>
1. Is there a CD/DVD drive associated with the VM?
2. If so, do you have a readable optical disk in the drive when starting the
Windows7 guest?
If the answer to 1 is yes and to 2 is no and your guest configuration file
shows this:
30 <disk type='block' device='cdrom'>
31 <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
32 <source dev='/dev/sr0'/>
33 <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/>
34 <readonly/>
35 <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' target='0' unit='0'/>
36 </disk>
then remove the line '<source dev='/dev/sr0'/>' and try again.
HTH.
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