[CentOS-virt] Windows 7 on a centos kvm host pauses after the installation reboot.

Mon Jun 9 13:58:30 UTC 2014
Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer at ngtech.co.il>

Hey James,

I do not have any optical device associated with the VM.
What I tried and worked was to update the OS and also the kernel.
Since I did an update from 2.6.X base repo kernel to elrepo lt kernel 
and Centos basic updates and then a reboot it was all resolved.
I do not know the reason but it seems like the updated system solved the 
issue.

Thanks,
Eliezer

On 06/09/2014 04:41 PM, James B. Byrne wrote:
> 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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