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Installing windows 2000 server
August 3, 2008 - 3:01pm
Hello, I have an issue installing Windows 2000 server (no service pack) on KVM (packaged version for Ubuntu Hardy).
The first step of the install works fine, partitionning and so on... At the next reboot I add the iso as cdrom in the generated XML file, as I usually do for windows XP etc.. But after reboot I get the following error:
Windows 2000 could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware.
I read you got win2000 to install - is there any trick? It works fine in non accelerated mode (replacing /usr/bin/kvm by /usr/bin/qemu and restarting)
Thanks for your help, I'm really struggling with this...
Have you tried starting it up from the command line?
This is the command line generated by virsh:
/usr/bin/qemu -M pc -no-kqemu -m 512 -smp 1 -monitor pty -localtime -no-acpi -boot c -hda /var/lib/kvm/licenceserver/root.qcow2 -cdrom //home/yhamon/win2000server.iso -net nic,macaddr=00:16:3e:4f:fd:a3,vlan=0 -net tap,fd=49,script=,vlan=0 -usb -usbdevice tablet -vnc 127.0.0.1:10
Doesnt work with kvm :(
Such a great article, keep going.. Great common sense here. Wish I?d tohguht of that.
What a joy to find such clear tihinkng. Thanks for posting!
You need to insist, and take the problem step by step. I'm sure you'll find and resolve the problem.
florarie
I have a couple of questions here in mind. By the way, what is the purpose of installing this windows 2000 server? PMP
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