Now that I finally got W2K installed as a guest, I’m
moving on to Vista. The initial setup and
config worked and the Vista install booted
from CDROM and transferred files to the harddrive. After reboot there is just a
blank black screen, which is very similar to the W2K install. With W2K I worked
around it by hitting F5 and selecting Standard PC. With Vista
there is no such option.
I transferred the ISO to disk and added it to my config
file. When I create the guest and it tries to boot I get this error:
Boot from Hard Disk 0 failed
FATAL: not a bootable disk
My config file:
# Automatically generated
xen config file
name =
"vistavirt1"
builder = "hvm"
memory = "500"
disk = [ 'file:/xen/vistavirt1,hda,w',
'file:/home/evjimiso/vista.iso,hdc:c,r']
vif = [ 'type=ioemu,
mac=00:16:3e:3f:17:66, bridge=xenbr0', ]
uuid =
"2dc04ca6-4de7-0b22-8cc4-4bdb0ff273d9"
device_model =
"/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm"
kernel =
"/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
vnc=1
vncunused=1
apic=1
acpi=1
pae=1
vcpus=1
serial = "pty" #
enable serial console
on_reboot = 'restart'
on_crash = 'restart'
