Trouble Installing Windows 7/Windows 2008 R2 on XenServer 5?
Written by Joe Shonk   
Wednesday, 14 January 2009

This is for those of you that are trying to install Windows 7 and/or Windows Server 2008 R2 on a XenServer 5 Host?  Chances are you didn't get very far as the virtual machine hangs when trying to boot from the installation CD.

At the moment, there is not a fix but there is a workaround.   I found the following searching through the Citrix Forums and it works.

 

James Cannon:

A colleague recommended the following:

"1) XenServer 5.0: Due to a bug in the HyperV extensions, installing a Windows 7 OS on XenServer 5.0 server may result in a blue screen or get hung during initialization. In order to install Windows 7 images on a XenServer

5.0 machine, you will need to perform the following workaround:

$ xe vm-param-set uuid=<vmuuid> platform:viridian=false
You can obtain the vmuuid by running the following command from your host: xe vm-list

2) XenServer Tools: the XenServer tools currently do not work on Windows 7. If you attempt to install them you will experience a blue screen! "

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hans  - XenCenter 5.0 works on Windows 7   |2009-01-15 08:34:52
XenCenter 5.0 works on Windows 7: At home i have a notebook with Windows 7 x86
and i installed XenCenter 5.0 and updated it with the latest Version.
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Stan   |2009-01-21 14:20:47
It was windows 7 who wouldn't install in a guest on XenServer5, this fixed it,
thanks a lot !
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Richard Nash   |2009-01-25 18:55:20
How did you figure this out? However you did, good work and thanks!
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Trond Eirik Haavarstein  - Windows 2008 R2 on XenServer 5     |2009-02-12 08:58:58
thanx Joe, it worked perfectly
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Jared Cowart  - Rocky Mountain CDC SE   |2009-03-27 13:18:03
After the install of the XenTools, I too got the bluescreen. After a reboot, i
was able to get the machine up and going but still had a issue with the PV Xen
NIC.

I was able to get the PV Nic to work by uninstalling it, checking the
Remove Driver box.

I then rescanned for devices and browsed to the
C:\Program Files\Citrix\xentools\ Directory to loaded the driver
from there.

worked like a charm.

I now have Windows 7 working in my lab
with PVS and Xendesktop.... good stuff.

Hope this helps.
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Kurt   |2009-05-07 06:50:01
@ Jared Cowart

Thanks, that worked like a charm. Now I have full networking
on RC1!!!
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Sylvester P   |2009-05-26 07:50:04
Shweet!! Works great!
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Chris S   |2009-06-09 16:23:43
Been banging my head about this for weeks! Thank you VERY much!
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Daniel   |2009-10-20 03:34:01
Awesome! Thanks a lot man!
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Kev   |2010-02-18 07:14:55
Great Thanks! Worked like a charm. JFGI wins the day
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