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Hi Sylvain,

Were you running any specific services on Windows to cause this (such as
Exchange or SQL Server)? I've never run into this issue myself, although
the Windows instances I've run were more for desktop-related tasks.

Thanks,
Joe


On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Sylvain Bauza
<sylvain.bauza at digimind.com>wrote:

>  Indeed.
> FYI, I had various issues with Windows 2003R2 over KVM (libvirtified). The
> most painful one was the fact that for some reason, my Windows dlls were
> corrupt and Windows was crashing after 6h or 12h running.
>
> After a hard period, I found why : when you perform a snapshot, it's very
> important to make sure the disks are synced, which is *not the case* with
> the default virtio driver settings. As a result, when trying to hot
> snapshot a Windows instance, the image was corrupt.
>
> The only solution I found was to either stop the instance and do the
> snapshot; or disable the writecache in Windows.
>
> -Sylvain
>
> Le 28/03/2013 21:42, Steven Barnabas a écrit :
>
> Ahh nevermind, I see that I need to create a windows image with Virtio
> drivers installed.
>
>
>  Thank you.
>
>
>
>
>  Steven Barnabas
> Network Engineer
> Front Porch, Inc.
> 209-288-5580
> 209-652-7733 mobile
> www.frontporch.com
>
>
>
>  On Mar 28, 2013, at 10:04 AM, Steven Barnabas <sbarnabas at frontporch.com>
> wrote:
>
>  Success!!!!   I have launched my Windows ISO instance with a volume
> attatched.  Thank you very much for all you're help.
>
>  Just 1 more quick question.  When I am VNC'ing into the image to install
> windows onto the volume, it is trying to boot from the actual volume, then
> network, then floppy.  It never launches the ISO. Since there is no OS
> installed yet on the volume, there is no bootable disc.  Is there a way of
> making it launch the ISO and start the installation?
>
>
>
>  Thank you very much.
>
>
>
>  Steven Barnabas
> Network Engineer
> Front Porch, Inc.
> 209-288-5580
> 209-652-7733 mobile
> www.frontporch.com
>
>
>
>  On Mar 26, 2013, at 2:08 AM, Sylvain Bauza <sylvain.bauza at digimind.com>
> wrote:
>
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