Hello:

 

I am having issues creating a Windows 7 virtual machine. No matter what selections that I make when creating the VM, the install will start and it reaches the point where the screen displays "Starting Windows" and shows the four colored flag and that is where it ends.  It will stay at that point indefinitely or at least an hour or so. By that point, I typically shut it down.

 

I have attached a diagnostics file.

 

The machine itself is a SuperMicro board with dual Xeon processors. The board has 48GB of memory.

 

I have tried assigning different amounts of processors from 1 to 4. I typically assign the VM 4GB of memory. I am using VNC to view the VM. I am not trying to pass video cards or anything like that. I just want the VM to run in the background so that I can run a database on it.

 

The first two screen shots show my VM selections from my last try.

 

Let me know if there is additional information needed.

 

Frank Hahn

homer-diagnostics-20170131-1729.zip

Just to confirm, did you try i440fx for the machine type?

Well known and documented issue. Windows 7 install process is incompatible with the current qxl implementation. Switch to cirrus for the install, then after you are up and running switch back to qxl.

https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=53435.msg514286#msg514286

https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=53346.0

I'm pretty sure that I did but I will check tonight.

 

Thanks.

 

Frank Hahn

 

I'm pretty sure that I did but I will check tonight.

 

Thanks.

 

Frank Hahn

 

I'll read through these threads to see what they say.

 

I was able to get a system running last night via a workaround.  I created a Windows 7 VM on Virtualbox and saved the VM in *.qcow format.  I was able to copy this file over and got the system to boot.

 

I'll take a look at the above items and see if I can things figured out.

 

Thanks.

 

Frank Hahn

 

I'm pretty sure that I did but I will check tonight.

 

Thanks.

 

Frank Hahn

 

I'll read through these threads to see what they say.

 

I was able to get a system running last night via a workaround.  I created a Windows 7 VM on Virtualbox and saved the VM in *.qcow format.  I was able to copy this file over and got the system to boot.

 

I'll take a look at the above items and see if I can things figured out.

 

Thanks.

 

Frank Hahn

Yes, it's only the very first boot of the installer that doesn't work with qxl. As soon as you have a running image, qxl works fine. In your screenshot, it has qxl listed for video. If you had changed that to cirrus, it would install properly.

Yes, it's only the very first boot of the installer that doesn't work with qxl. As soon as you have a running image, qxl works fine. In your screenshot, it has qxl listed for video. If you had changed that to cirrus, it would install properly.

 

I changed the video option to cirrus and the Windows 7 installer worked like it should.

 

Thank you.

 

Frank Hahn