Today my colleague asked me to create VM on our XenServer 5.0 farm with Windows 7. I pulled my DVD with Windows 7 RC and tried to deploy it on VM, but it hanged on screen “Starting Windows”. I spent some time googling and found this:
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=
platform:viridian=false
You can obtain the vmuuid by running the following command from your host: xe vm-list2) XenServer Tools: the XenServer tools currently do not work on Windows 7. If you attempt to install them you will experience a blue screen! ”
Recommended command did the trick and I’m looking on Windows 7 installation right now.