Radu Radutiu wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble installing Windows on a fully virtualized VM on > CentOS 5. The installation hangs on the blue screen saying "Setup is > starting Windows". > The hardware is a dual processor dual core AMD Opteron 2218 with 8GB > RAM and SATA disks, CentoOS 5 i386 will all patches applied. On the > same machine I have successfully installed two VM's running CentOS 5, > one paravirtualized and one with full virtualization. > I have tried to install Windows 2003 server and Windows XP with the > same result. The installation media are iso images of the Windows MSDN > DVDs. > When the installation hangs at the "Setup is starting Windows" screen > the virt-manager shows 25% cpu utilization for the guest ( I think > this represents 100% CPU usage for the guest as it has 1 vcpu assigned > out the maximum 4 vcpus). > I am running the virt-manager and the virtual machine console over ssh > as dom0 has no X server installed. > Has anyone seen this problem? Any suggestions? AFAIK, Xen requires the guest OS to support Xen. I don't think we will see Windows supporting Xen soon. And AFAIK MS license agreement requires a separate licensing for Windows to be used under any competitive virtual machine, but not for their own VM (Virtual PC). Monopoly, Monopoly, Monopoly.