[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#499718: Bug#499718: [virt-manager] Impossible to install Windows

[Guido Günther]

Hi Laurent,
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 05:48:04PM +0200, Laurent Léonard wrote:
> Package: virt-manager
> Version: 0.5.4-4
> Severity: important
> 
> --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
> I tried to install a VM with Windows, and when the machine reboot after the 
> first stage of installation I got this message : 
> "A disk read error occured
> Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"
> This message is specific to Windows. 
Which version of Windows is this exactly?

> No problem to install Windows with KVM in command line. No problem to install 
> GNU/Linux distributions with Virt-manager. 
Could you paste that commandline?

> To install a Windows VM, the following procedure works : 
> - Launch KVM in command line
> - Partition the disk
> - Format a NTFS partition
> - Stop KVM
> - Use the disk image in Virt-manager without reformatting it
> - Complete the installation procedure
> 
> After tried to install Windows in Virt-manager, I tried to install OpenSUSE 
> 11.0. No problem to install OpenSUSE but Anaconda was unable to resize the 
> NTFS file system because it was corrupted... 
Could you add the version of libvirt/virtinst you used. Could you also
please add the output of "ps awux | grep kvm" when installing via
virt-manager. Which variant of Windows did you choose when installing
via virt-manager:

     "variants": { \
            "winxp":{ "label": "Microsoft Windows XP",
                      "acpi": False, "apic": False },
            "win2k": { "label": "Microsoft Windows 2000",
                       "acpi": False, "apic": False },
            "win2k3": { "label": "Microsoft Windows 2003" },
            "win2k8": { "label": "Microsoft Windows 2008" },
            "vista": { "label": "Microsoft Windows Vista" },
        },


Cheers,
 -- Guido