See Test_Day:2009-05-07_Virtualization.
This test area is concerned with testing that different OSes install successfully as a KVM guest on a Fedora host.
Prerequisites[edit]
Install some of the following guest OSes:
- Fedora 9
- Fedora 10
- Fedora 11
- RHEL or CentOS 4
- RHEL or CentOS 5
- Windows XP
- Windows 2K3
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7 preview
- Debian 5
- Solaris/OpenSolaris
- FreeBSD
- SuSE/OpenSuSE
using virt-manager and/or virt-install.
If possible, use different install methods - e.g. DVD ISO, http, nfs etc. installs for Fedora/RHEL.
Results[edit]
If you have problems with any of the tests, file a bug report in bugzilla.
Once you have completed an install, add its details to the tables below.
Put here what you experienced in general
| Tester
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Comment
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| Rainer Koenig
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When installing from a phsical CD/DVD in Virtual Machine Manager everything works fine. But the connection to the CD/DVD media is stored for the virtual machine, so if the media is removed you will experience an error on the next attempt to start this virtual machine. Solution: "Details" tab of that machine window and disconnect the CD drive here. See 473154
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| Rainer Koenig
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Strange effect observed, unfortunately only once: A guest installation seemed to hang and I tried to kill it with "Shutdown/Force off". The effect was that not only this guest was killed but all running guests on that host. So far not reproducable in my lab.
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| Rainer Koenig
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Screensaver turns of screen and locks it when you spent too much time in a virtual guest and then you shutdown this guest. As soon as the guest machine is "off" your screen will go black and is locked. So obviously the screensaver doesn't see your activity when you are bsuy inside the guest system.
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Machine info[edit]
Enter some details on the machines you used to do the test:
| Machine
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Description
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| CELSIUS M470
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Entry workstation, Tylersburg chipset, Intel E5504 Quadcore CPU, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB harddisk, Fedora 11 (x86_64), (Datasheet), Smolt
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| HP-6720s
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Notebook HP Compaq 6720s, 3GB RAM
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Distribution specific test results[edit]
In 'Arch' column use
- 32-on-32 for i686 guest on i686 host
- 32-on-64 for i686 guest on x86_64 host
- 64-on-64 for x86_64 guest on x86_64 host
- 64-on-32 for x86_64 guest on i686 host (plain QEMU emulation, no KVM)
Please indicate whether using 'qemu' or 'kvm'. virt-manager defaults to kvm, except in 64-on-32). virt-install defaults to qemu
unles the --accelerate flag is given. You can verify by running 'virsh dumpxml GUEST' and looking at top level <domain type='qemu|kvm'> element
Fedora 9 results[edit]
| Tester
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Machine
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Arch
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Result
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Comment
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| Rainer Koenig
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CELSIUS M470
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32-on-64
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success
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Installed via HTTP
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Fedora 10 results[edit]
| Tester
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Machine
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Arch
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Result
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Comment
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| Rainer Koenig
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CELSIUS M470
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64-on-64
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success
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Installed via HTTP
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| Pavan Naregundi
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INTEL LS21
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64-on-64
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success
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F10-Live CD boot check
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| James Laska
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Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420
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32-on-64
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success
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Installing with koan --virt
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| James Laska
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Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420
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64-on-64
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success
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Installing with koan --virt
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| Justin Forbes
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Intel(R) Core 2 Q6600
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64-on-64
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success
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Installing with virt-manager, lvm backed storage
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| Justin Forbes
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Intel(R) Core i7 920
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64-on-64
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success
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Installing with virt-manager, lvm backed storage
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Fedora 11 results[edit]
| Tester
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Machine
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Arch
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Result
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Comment
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| Rainer Koenig
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CELSIUS M470
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64-on-64
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success
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Installed via PXE. On first shutdown after installation the guest locked up instead of turningg off, but this wasn't reproducable afterwards.
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| James Laska
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Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420
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64-on-64
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success
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Installing with koan --virt
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| James Laska
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Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420
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32-on-64
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success
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Installing with koan --virt
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| Justin Forbes
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Intel(R) Core 2 Q6600
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64-on-64
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success
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Installing with virt-manager, lvm backed storage
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| Justin Forbes
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Intel(R) Core i7 920
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64-on-64
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success
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Installing with virt-manager, lvm backed storage
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| Justin Forbes
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Intel(R) Core i7 920
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32-on-64
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success
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Installing with virt-manager, lvm backed storage
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RHEL4 or CentOS4 results[edit]
Please specify the precise RHEL4.x update used to install in comments
| Tester
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Machine
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Arch
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Result
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Comment
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| Rainer Koenig
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CELSIUS M470
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64-on-64
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success
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Installed RHEL4.7ES from HTTP
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RHEL5 or CentOS5 results[edit]
Please specify the precise RHEL5.x update used to install in comments
| Tester
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Machine
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Arch
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Result
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Comment
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| Rainer Koenig
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CELSIUS M470
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64-on-64
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Success
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Installed over HTTP with vit-manager
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| Santwana Samantray
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INTEL LS21
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64-on-64
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Success
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Installed RHEL5.3 with DVD ISO using virt-install
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Windows XP results[edit]
| Tester
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Machine
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Arch
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Result
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Comment
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| Rainer Koenig
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CELSIUS M470
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32-on-64
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success
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Installed XP Professional SP2 from recovery CD
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Windows Vista results[edit]
| Tester
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Machine
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Arch
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Result
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Comment
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| Rainer Koenig
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CELSIUS M470
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32-on-64
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success
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Installed Vista Home Premium SP1 from recovery CD
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Windows 2k3 results[edit]
| Tester
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Machine
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Arch
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Result
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Comment
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| Santwana Samantray
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INTEL LS21
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32-on-64
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success
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Installed Windows2003 Server from ISO using virt-manager
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Windows 7 preview results[edit]
| Tester
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Machine
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Arch
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Result
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Comment
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| Matej Cepl
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HP-6720s
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32-on-64
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success
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Windows 7, build 7100 just works, even with virtio network drivers
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| Justin Forbes
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Intel(R) Core 2 Q6600
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64-on-64
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success
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Installing with virt-manager, lvm backed storage
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Debian 5 results[edit]
| Tester
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Machine
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Arch
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Result
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Comment
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| Rainer Koenig
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CELSIUS M470
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64-on-64
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workaround needed
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Installed from Lenny netinstall CD. First attempt didn't work. So I filed Bug 499555 in Bugzilla.
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Solaris/OpenSolaris results[edit]
| Tester
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Machine
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Arch
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Result
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Comment
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FreeBSD results[edit]
| Tester
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Machine
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Arch
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Result
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Comment
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SUSE / openSUSE results[edit]
| Tester
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Machine
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Arch
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Result
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Comment
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| Rainer Koenig
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CELSIUS M470
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64-on-64
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sucess
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openSUSE 11.1 installed via PXE
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| Rainer Koenig
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CELSIUS M470
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64-on-64
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success
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SLES 11 installed via PXE
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| Tester
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Machine
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Arch
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Result
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Comment
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| Matej Cepl
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HP-6720s
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32-on-64
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sucess
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LiveCD, installed without a problem; only the operator is too dumb to use it ;-)
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| Tester
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Machine
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Arch
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Result
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Comment
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| Matej Cepl
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HP-6720s
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32-on-64
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sucess with workaround
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Installation ISO image, installed; only system requires emulation of rtl8139, doesn't work with the default emulation
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