Under kvm, Vista guest OS install halts on black screen
- by Isaac Sutherland
I am using kvm on my ubuntu-server-10.04 amd64 dual core PC.
I am trying to install a Windows Vista guest OS. The installation proceeds properly until the system reboot halfway into the installation process, at which point it stops on a black screen and CPU usage goes to near zero.
I created the vm with virt-install as follows:
virt-install -n vista --connect qemu:///system -r 1024 -vcpus 2 \
--os-type windows --os-variant vista \
--virt-type kvm --accelerate \
-c /dev/sr0 \
--disk path=/dev/main/vista-hd \
--network bridge=br0 \
--vnc --noautoconsole
Where /dev/sr0 is the physical drive with the vista installation DVD, and /dev/main/vista-hd is a 20-GB lvm logical volume I created.
A number of people seem to have had success installing vista under KVM, but I haven't been able to determine what is causing my problem. Ideas anyone?