Win 7 Pro fails to boot

Nick_C · 04-03-2012, 10:35 AM

My Win 7 Pro VM now has fails to boot. Safe mode freezes at ClassPNP.sys.

Not certain but I suspect this may be due to the spice drivers which I installed yesterday (spice-guest-tools-0.1.exe). I noticed when I installed these that the driver was unsigned but Win 7 seemed to accept it fine. However I can't help but wonder if it is this unsigned driver which is causing Windows not to boot.

dyasny · 04-03-2012, 10:54 AM

revert back to VNC and see if that works

Nick_C · 04-04-2012, 05:27 AM

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Originally Posted by dyasny

revert back to VNC and see if that works

Unfortunately not, looks like that Win 7 install is completely screwed. Even switching back to vga & vnc same problem with freezing at ClassPnP.sys.

Also now getting the following error at boot:
'autochk cannot run due to an error caused by a recently installed software package'
but I can't seem to find any way around this.

dyasny · 04-04-2012, 06:09 AM

well, I've been running win7 on kvm since 2009 with spice and absolutely no issues, tried to reproduce what you describe on fedora 16 and rhel6.2 with no luck - everything just works

Nick_C · 04-04-2012, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by dyasny

well, I've been running win7 on kvm since 2009 with spice and absolutely no issues, tried to reproduce what you describe on fedora 16 and rhel6.2 with no luck - everything just works

Doesn't your Win 7 complain about having non signed device drivers, I thought 64-bit Win 7 insisted on signed drivers only.

jefro · 04-04-2012, 02:58 PM

Boot the VM to windows 7 dvd and try the repair feature or system restore point.

I'd be more inclined to think some data failure like bad ram or bad hard drive write or read sort of thing.

dyasny · 04-05-2012, 03:08 AM

Most of my setups use RHEV, where all the drivers are signed by MS. I do however have a couple of fedora based win7 VM instances with upstream drivers that also work just fine

Nick_C · 04-05-2012, 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by dyasny

Most of my setups use RHEV, where all the drivers are signed by MS. I do however have a couple of fedora based win7 VM instances with upstream drivers that also work just fine

Thats an idea can I use the signed Redhat drivers rather than the unsigned ones from spice-space or are they only available to Redhat subscribers.

dyasny · 04-05-2012, 08:40 AM

You need a RHEV subscription to get those.

Nick_C · 04-11-2012, 04:31 AM

Don't know why but I have seen this happen a number of times now.

In theory Win 7 should not install unsigned drivers but for some reason it does. Win 7 Professional seems to work with these except for a couple of warning messages but for some reason Ultimate just doesn't tollerate these for more than a couple of days. After which Ultimate just seems to destroy itself to a state where it will no longer boot.

Nick

dyasny · 04-11-2012, 08:43 AM

I'd try to ask Microsoft about this if I were you.

Nick_C · 04-25-2012, 06:51 AM

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Originally Posted by dyasny

well, I've been running win7 on kvm since 2009 with spice and absolutely no issues, tried to reproduce what you describe on fedora 16 and rhel6.2 with no luck - everything just works

As a matter of interest have you ever got audio recording from a Win 7 guest to work? I don't seem to ever get an audio recording device present in Win 7.

Thanks,
Nick

dyasny · 04-25-2012, 07:54 AM

Used to run skype conversations from a win7 VM over spice, does that count?

Nick_C · 04-27-2012, 04:53 AM

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Originally Posted by dyasny

Used to run skype conversations from a win7 VM over spice, does that count?

Excellent so it does work then. I will persist with trying to get this working then.

Currently trying this on openSUSE but stuck with the problem: No module named SpiceClientGtk.

Cheers,