[ovirt-users] HP ProLiant ML10 v2 or ML110 Gen9 with Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2 guest

[gregor]

Update: With the HP Proliant ML110 Gen9 and the Cpu "Intel(R) Xeon(R)
CPU E5-2603 v3 @ 1.60GHz" Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2 works.

regards
gregor

On 17/01/16 17:21, gregor wrote:
> Thank you, I realized the same hours ago and play currently with qemu on
> my machine to see if this works.
> The host CPU on my workstation is: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q9650
> Here the Westmere cpu setting worked.
> 
> On the server I configured for my customer I choose an Intel Xeon E5-2603V3
> 
> Link to the specification:
> http://ark.intel.com/products/83349/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2603-v3-15M-Cache-1_60-GHz
> 
> regards
> gregor
> 
> On 17/01/16 16:22, Chris Adams wrote:
>> Once upon a time, gregor <gregor_forum at catrix.at> said:
>>> And will Windows Server 2012 run in oVirt,
>>> because on my test machine (HP ProLiant ML350 G5) it didn't (maybe the
>>> CPU is to old).
>>
>> I just went through trying to get Windows Server 2012 Essentials (both
>> "original" and R2) running on a cluster with Nehalem CPUs, and it would
>> blue-screen during install.  I replicated the problem on my Fedora
>> desktop with plain KVM set up to emulate a Nehalem CPU.  When I switched
>> to Westmere or newer, Windows worked.
>>
>> This appears to be some difference between Essentials and Standard
>> edition (I am running Windows Server 2012 Standard VMs on my cluster
>> just fine).  A co-worker searching around on the Internet also found
>> some VirtualBox users having similar issues with Essentials.
>>
>> So, with Westmere or newer CPU, I think Essentials should be okay, but
>> don't try it with Nehalem.
>>