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The entire error screen displayed my the Windows Server 2008 installer appears as follows:
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The entire error screen displayed by the Windows Server 2008 installer appears as follows:
  
 
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ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) provides an interface used by operating systems for hardware recognition, configuration and power management.  
 
ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) provides an interface used by operating systems for hardware recognition, configuration and power management.  
  
The reason this error is occuring is typically because ACPI has not been enable din the Xen domainU configuration file for the Windows Server 2008 guest. By default this support is displayed so unless it has been specifically set in the configuration file the Windows Server 2008 Xen installation will fail. This value can be set in the domainU configuration file as follows:
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The reason this error is occuring is typically because ACPI has not been enabled in the Xen domainU configuration file for the Windows Server 2008 guest. By default this support is disabled, so unless it has been specifically enabled in the configuration file the Windows Server 2008 Xen installation will fail as outlined above.  
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ACPI support is enabled in the Xen domainU guest configuration file as follows:
  
 
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Once the change has been made and the configuration file saved the installation of the Windows Sererv 2008 system as a Xen HVM guiest should proceed without any further problems.
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Once the change has been made, the configuration file saved and the doaminU guest restarted, the installation of the Windows Sererv 2008 system as a Xen HVM guest should proceed without any further problems.

Revision as of 16:24, 8 May 2008

When attempting to install Windows Server 2008 as a Xen HVM domainU guest the installation process fails in the early stages with a status 0xc0000225 message which reads:

Info: Windows failed to load because the firmware (BIOS) is not ACPI compatible.

The entire error screen displayed by the Windows Server 2008 installer appears as follows:

Windows Server 2008 failing to installl under Xen

ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) provides an interface used by operating systems for hardware recognition, configuration and power management.

The reason this error is occuring is typically because ACPI has not been enabled in the Xen domainU configuration file for the Windows Server 2008 guest. By default this support is disabled, so unless it has been specifically enabled in the configuration file the Windows Server 2008 Xen installation will fail as outlined above.

ACPI support is enabled in the Xen domainU guest configuration file as follows:

# enable/disable HVM guest ACPI, default=0 (disabled)
acpi=1

Once the change has been made, the configuration file saved and the doaminU guest restarted, the installation of the Windows Sererv 2008 system as a Xen HVM guest should proceed without any further problems.