Re: virtual machines and winxp

2009-10-13 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 13 Oct 2009, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Monday 12 Oct 2009, Alan Chandler wrote: > > Yes it was that bug. I downgraded to 72 and it now works. > > Unfortunately this version seems to not allow me to dynamically > > connect a usb device (at least the error message says the > > hypervisor

Re: virtual machines and winxp

2009-10-13 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 12 Oct 2009, Alan Chandler wrote: > Yes it was that bug. I downgraded to 72 and it now works. > Unfortunately this version seems to not allow me to dynamically > connect a usb device (at least the error message says the hypervisor > does not support the hostdev xml that I was trying t

Re: virtual machines and winxp

2009-10-12 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sunday 11 Oct 2009, Matthew Moore wrote: > On Sunday October 11 2009 6:50:25 am Alan Chandler wrote: > > 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 updat

Re: virtual machines and winxp

2009-10-11 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 10:56 -0600, Matthew Moore wrote: > On Sunday October 11 2009 6:50:25 am Alan Chandler wrote: > > 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

Re: virtual machines and winxp

2009-10-11 Thread Matthew Moore
On Sunday October 11 2009 6:50:25 am Alan Chandler wrote: > 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 s

Re: virtual machines and winxp

2009-10-11 Thread Ross Boylan
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

virtual machines and winxp

2009-10-11 Thread Alan Chandler
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)