I am converting nakart.com from Xen to KVM. Too much to gain, namely easy device attachment (Magic Jack VM!)
But KVM is being stupid.
virt-install -n magjak -r 512 --os-variant=winxp --disk /dev/nakvmvg/majlv,device=disk --vcpus=1 --description "MagicJack XP" --hvm --host-device 0x06e6:0xc200 -c /nas/isos/Windows/WinXPNak.iso --vnc --noautoconsole
It boots, it sees the magicjack (is that the problem?) it installs, and then it pukes, in an endless, *very fast* reboot churn. I think I saw something about boot device...
I have edited it in virt-manager (what a shit manager: if it's not a "managed resource" you can't touch it. Raw disks aren't managed, prove me wrong please) to boot from CD-ROM first then hard disk (which is still defined with IDE emulation) and it boots to cd-rom unprompted. WTF?
I don't want to do a disk image, but will if I have to.
Maybe my LV has to be hda1 instead of just hda...
So hda1 made no difference at all, time to build it with a disk image...
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So according to this post, my LVM should be partitioned one cylinder short of full to allow the Windows bootloader to install. Why didn't it do that? Windows is stupid (no really) and unlike Xen, KVM doesn't cover for it.
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When I installed Windows in Xen, it worked without the rigamarole, but oh well, trying it.
Which didn't work directly, installing again to a disk image(that worked) and will convert from that to LVM if possible...
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