Thomas Cameron wrote: > This might have been covered elsewhere, if so I'm sorry for the noise. > > I tried to install XP SP3 as a KVM guest yesterday and it just hung at > "installing devices." The little flashing scroll bar at the bottom of > the page was still going, and it was pingable, but the installation > progress bar stalled and the installation never completed. I couldn't > find any references to this issue via Google (although it's certainly > possible I was not searching with the right terms). > > I popped onto #fedora on Freenode and found someone else who had had the > same issue. He suggested trying an older version of XP and I did. It > worked fine. > > So, if you run into problems with XP SP3 as a KVM guest, try an older > version. > > Just wanted to post this in case anyone else ran into it. Hope it's > helpful. As additional info: My XP SP2 installation inside KVM had been working perfectly until the moment I installed XP SP3. After that, it blue-screens on boot with something related to ACPI. I switched back to SP2 by restoring the disk files of the VM and it is working again. I started investigating a switch from ACPI to noACPI, but it looks like a difficult trick to perform on Windows. Any suggestion anyone? -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
