Hardy - Virtualisation with Windows

[NoOp]

On 07/14/2008 07:22 AM, Jimmy Stewpot wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been spending the last few hours working to try and get windows 
> to install on a virtual machine in Hardy. I have made an ISO of the 
> windows media which I own and put that in the folder. I then go
> 
> virt-install --connect qemu:///system -n fanta -r 512 -f fanta.img -s 12 
> -c /tmp/en_win_srv_2003_r2_standard_vl_cd1.iso --vnc --accelerate 
> --noautoconsole --os-type windows --os-variant win2k
> 
> I have tried several different variants all being vista/xp/win2k all of 
> which fail. It seems to just hang when its trying to boot from "hard 
> disk" even though I have specified CDROM as the boot method in 
> virt-manager.
> 
> Has anyone seen this issue in the past or could anyone give me further 
> advice.

My recommendation is to try VirtualBox:
http://www.virtualbox.org/
There is a opensource version (OSE) in the Ubuntu repositories, but they
do not include USB support. If you require USB support then download and
install the VB version directly (Binaries (all platforms).

Note: when you create the virtual machine, be sure to allocate
sufficient hard drive space as it a bit tricky to expand the space later
on. I initially allocated only 4Gb for Win2KPro and had to jocky things
around to expand it to 6GB. If you run into problems VB has a very good
mailing list & forum for assistance
(http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Community).