Hello, I came across a message someone posted elsewhere at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/66135 while trying to determine why Windows XP and 2003 guest machines are not installing under Fedora 13 Beta. I would think others have run into this problem, but see no discussion in the forums? I use the script below to do my installs (mainly because Virt Manager never does the cache=writeback part, which really speeds up the guest). I am getting it to format and copy files, but after the reboot of the guest, I get "A disk read error occurred" after it says "Booting from Hard Disk". Other guest types (linux CentOS or Fedora for example) install fine. virt-install -n xp64_1 -r 1024 --vcpus=1 --os-type=windows --os-variant=winxp64 --sound --hvm --virt-type=kvm -c /var/lib/libvirt/images/WINXPPRO64.iso --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/xp1_1.img,size=30,sparse=false,cache=writeb ack --network network:default I am running the following: CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ 2.50GHz KVM: QEMU PC emulator version 0.12.3 (qemu-kvm-0.12.3) LIBVIRTD: libvirtd (libvirt) 0.7.7 KERNEL: 2.6.33.2-41.fc13.x86_64 GUEST: Windows XP 64 bit & Windows Server 2003 64 bit Any thoughts? Jonathan Hoover -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
