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. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3