kvm VM won't boot xp

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I running 1.7. I setup a VM with a scsi cd. Inserted dvd and it won't boot. Syslog says nothing.
'messages' says 'unaligned transfer'.

dmesg has no error messages.

I get the same messages with 'qm start 102'.

Could someone tell me what I am doing wrong?
thanks
 
No idea, sorry. Is there a reason you need it to be a SCSI cd device? It's only virtual, so try IDE?
 
You sure the iso is not corrupt? I have a win XP VM that boots just fine... Which proxmox? I am running 1.7...
 
baboo said:
I running 1.7. I setup a VM with a scsi cd. Inserted dvd and it won't boot. Syslog says nothing.
'messages' says 'unaligned transfer'.

dmesg has no error messages.

I get the same messages with 'qm start 102'.

Could someone tell me what I am doing wrong?
thanks
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Sorry, but Windows XP can only boot as a KVM machine. Did you use that option when creating the VM ?
And, in my 1.7 web interface, I cannot choose SCSI as CDROM. So what are you doing precisely ?

Did you upload an XP CDROM iso on the server ?

If you do not give more details, we cannot help you.

Alain
 
alain: thank you for the reply. I only use kvm. I created a vm that uses scsi. I added in hardware a scsi cd. I apply config. I then start vm but get error message that cd is not bootable. It is.

the only error message is 'unaligned transfer' in '/var/log/messages'

I don't know what else I could tell you.
 
baboo said:
alain: thank you for the reply. I only use kvm. I created a vm that uses scsi. I added in hardware a scsi cd. I apply config. I then start vm but get error message that cd is not bootable. It is.

the only error message is 'unaligned transfer' in '/var/log/messages'

I don't know what else I could tell you.
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Hi,
use an standard ide-cdrom. Select cdrom as first boot-device in the VM-option menu (save). And please post your VM-config.
Code: 
cat /etc/qemu-server/VMID.conf

Udo
 
udo: thanks. good to hear from you. I tried that once before but will again and post config. Will take me a few minutes.
 
/etc/qemu-server/102.conf
ostype: other
memory: 1000
sockets: 1
name: win7
vlan0: rtl8139=26:A2:99:64:F9:9B
bootdisk: scsi0
scsi0: local:102/vm-102-disk-1.raw
localtime: 1
boot: dc
freeze: 0
cpuunits: 1000
acpi: 1
kvm: 1
ide0: cdrom,media=cdrom

thanks
 
do not use scsi. (scsi0: local:102/vm-102-disk-1.raw)

use IDE or VIRTIO (extra drivers needed for VIRTIO)
 
tom: thanks. I am using ide based on udo's post. The post above is the 'conf' file showing that. However, it still does not work. Maybe I am doing something wrong but so far no one has pointed out what that might be :-)
 
you use scsi for the disk image. (scsi0: local:102/vm-102-disk-1.raw).
do not do this.
 
tom: You're the Man! So, I learned that the disk cannot be scsi but ide instead. It all works.

thanks
 
Great, thanks for feedback.
 
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