[Tfug] Virtualization problem

[Matthew Patenaude]

No I'm not confident about the cd itself, so I may look into that. It
is supposed to XP sp2. If that doesn't work I may look into buying a
VM. Yes the issue is in the windows installer: I got further once with
a sp1 cd, but it got a point where it requested a disk with the actual
service pack on it, and by that time sp1 was no longer available
online. Thanks for the suggestions.

Matthew



On 12/30/08, use Pickell <pickell at gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the version of XP that you are installing? Original release XP CD?
> XP SP 1? XP SP 2? XP SP 3? I know that I have installed professional with SP
> 2 without issue. I believe I even had the SP 1 running under virtualbox,
> until I updated it. Both were to VirtualBox setups on Linux (Ubuntu 7.10 and
> 8.04), and I have a pre-built image of XP Professional running inside my
> laptop's Ubuntu 8.10. So I am guessing you maybe using a very old XP media
> perhaps?
>
> Sincerely,
> Judd Pickell
>
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:47 AM, Robert Hunter <hunter at tfug.org> wrote:
>
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>> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 04:40:09PM +0800, Matthew Patenaude wrote:
>> > Howdy out there!
>> >
>> > It seems as if no matter what virtualization scheme I try, I always end
>> up
>> > with the CD booting and then the screen going black and then a blue
>> screen
>> > coming up with a message that says session3_initialization_failed.
>> >
>> > I am trying to run XP virtualized on Ubuntu 8.10 and am having no
>> > success
>> at
>> > all. I have tried with Virtual Box, and with KVM/Virt-manager, both have
>> the
>> > same result. Any ideas?
>>
>> Some quick googling indicates that the "session3_yada_yada" error is
>> specific to the XP installer.  How confident are you that the CD or
>> CD-drive are not the cause of your problem?  If the error is occurring
>> before anything is written to disk, you could safely* test booting
>> directly from the CD.
>>
>> Other things you could try:
>>
>> 1. Verify the checksum of the ISO image.
>> 2. Look for kernel messages that indicate I/O errors with the CD drive.
>> 3. Install from a known good ISO image (assuming you can obtain one).
>>
>> *You may want to do a backup beforehand, just to be safe. ;-)
>>
>> - --
>> RH
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