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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Upgrading my Gaming VM to Windows 7: Part 2

I reverted my virtual disk to a snapshot I created just after installing Windows 7.  I installed the USB controller card drivers then took another snapshot.  I installed the AMD drivers again.  This time, during the "Applying update operation 44 of 44" step, the physical computer froze.  I rebooted the computer and immediately look another snapshot.  After booting again, I got a bad error message.


At first, I clicked "Launch Startup Repair" and nothing really happened.  I rebooted the VM and picked "Start Windows Normally".  It wanted to do a check disk, but it booted.  Then, my TV showed the login screen.  Sound and Video were working.  I played around a bit, then shutdown to take another snapshot.  I tried to start the VM, and my Dom0 froze again.  This would happen to me in my old setup.  If I took down the VM that was using the VGA card, then trying to bring it back up would freeze the Dom0.  I decided to let the Launch Startup Repair run for a while.  Eventually, a window popped up saying that I should replace the card that caused the problem and let me reboot.  I rebooted the Dom0 and then the DomU.  My TV finally displayed the logon screen.

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