On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 04:02:59PM +0100, Abri Nation wrote: > Hi @all, > > i have problems with installing a virtual Windows 2003 on my FC6 with XEN. > the installation freeze during the windows setup in the section of device > installation . > i selected (F5) APCI-Multi-Processor cause i want to use 2 cpus in the > Windows VM. > i think thats one of the problems, cause if install Widnows as a "Standard > PC" there is no problem > during the installation - but there it is not possible to use 2 cpus. > > The system i use: 2 Quadcore Xeon and FC6 > > Do anyone got the same problems? What can i do for using Windows 2003 Server > with more than 1 cpu? The support for SMP in fullvirtualized guests in Xen 3.0.3 is flaky at best, downright broken at worst. So don't expect >1 VCPU to work at all reliably, if at all. Xen 3.0.4 (which is in Fedora 7) has improved SMP for HVM guests a great deal so your really best sticking with a single VCPU in Windows 2k3 until you can update to Fedora 7. Regards, Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
