Windows 2008 Guest Installation Problem

[Navid Ahmady]

Hi all,
I have a problem in installing W2K8 as a guest in Integrity VM 4.10.
I creat a VM with 8GB ram and 20GB file disk. I boot from smart.iso and follow the wizard for installing windows 2k8. aftar that when it prompt I put W2K8.iso and boot from it. it now show SAC> after that as the smart program told I went to command channel --> C: and then run install files. It start to install the windows (as I see in .... channel) but after a while it stop in "WizardDialogPost::SetActive" line.
It did not hang but nothing else happend.
I use Windows 2008 for Itanium based system.
Thank you in advanced and looking from hearing you as soon as possible.
Regards,
Navid

[Anonymous]

HPVM Admin manual mentions that you need at least 34GB disk. Maybe you could increase the disk space allocated and retry?

[Bhadresh]

34GB disk space is recommended for windows guest installation. Section 5.1 discusses about the Windows guest requirements in HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration manual.

Manual link is: http://docs.hp.com/en/T2767-90180/T2767-90180.pdf

Could you please increase disk size to 34GB and try?

Regards,
Bhadresh

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

The documentation says that HPVM 4.1 supports Windows Server 2003. It says that 4.2 supports Server 2008 and drops support for 2003.

I assumed that means that 4.1 supports both OS, but the documenation does not exactly say that.

If possible, you might find going to 4.2 HPVM makes the process easier.

Also check that required patches are in place, this has been known to cause issues.

SEP

[Navid Ahmady]

Hi again,
Thank you for your answers.
I upgrade my disk to 40GB but nothing changed and the problem exist yet.
also I tried to install Windows 2003 for Itanium but it also stop after some installation process in "End_Section,DeleteCurrentProductIdInRegistry " section.
I check and all necessary patches was installed.
I hope some body can help me, thank you in advanced.
regards