I was running XP under KVM and, fairly recently, it stopped working. The symptoms differ from yours; XP starts and then very quickly crashes.
I don't know if it was changes to XP or something else on my system that triggered this. I'm running Lenny on amd64 with a 2.6.30 kernel. My plan, when I get the time, is to build the latest kvm and see if that helps. Ross Boylan On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 13:50 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > because I have just got myself and iphone and I need to run itunes to > back stuff up, I thought I would install windows xp in a virtual machine > (using libvirt and associated tools). > > I can easily install xp and get it up and running. But as part of the > upgrade to winxp sp2 (necessary for itunes) it somehow corrupts the disk > image and it fails to boot. The symptoms are hanging with 100% of the > virtual pc CPU being used. > > If I destroy the virtual machine and re-create it from the disk image > file I can get the boot screen up, but it then tells me it failed to > start and offers me a route into safe mode. Safe mode with networking > works. > > If I do anything else (including going back to the previous > configuration, I get stuck in this 100% CPU loop). > > I am not sure where to go next. I can roll back the image to pre sp2 > upgrade (I took a copy just prior to doing the upgrade) and that works > fine, but as soon as I do the remote update from microsoft the image is > corrupted and I am stuck. > > Googling around doesn't seem to show anyone else with this sort of > problem (other that some ubuntu problems with KVM - but these seem to be > related to a KVM upgrade rather than a Winxp upgrade). > > Any one with experience of this (I am new to it all this weekend) have > any pointers of what to try next > > > > -- > Alan Chandler > http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
