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Windows Server 2012 R2 hangs on the KVM hypervisor

06/04/2018

Windows Server 2012 R2 hangs during the installation on KVM hypervisor on Ubuntu . Windows Server 2012 R2 hangs in the installation step. Version of the Virtual Host:

gokay@ankara:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release:	16.04
Codename:	xenial

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gokay@ankara:~$ lsb_release -a

No LSB modules are available.

Distributor ID: Ubuntu

Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS

Release: 16.04

Codename: xenial

Solution: Check your Virtual Disk Bus. And change it to SATA. I finally installed Windows Server 2012 R2 successfully. […]

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VLAN Creation on KVM-I

25/11/2017

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Creating a VLAN on KVM requires more raw networking knowledge in comparison to VMware world. KVM requires some Linux networking knowledge beside general understanding of computer networks. I did not see more information on the Internet about that. To fill this gap I write this post. 🙂 Actually there are more than one methods creating […]

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Adding Shared disk on KVM

20/10/2017

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Hello, In this very short post, I will share with you how to create a shared disk on KVM host ugliest way :). It is prerequisite for the next post. In the next topic, I will share with you how to build a two-node cluster on RedHat. I will use latest version of CentOS6 for […]

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Mounting QCOW2 Disk

17/09/2017

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QCOW2 is a disk image format which used by QEMU virtualization software. Install Software:

root@ankara:~# apt-get install libguestfs-tools

1	root@ankara:~# apt-get install libguestfs-tools

Create a directory for the mount point.

root@ankara:/data/rhcevms# mkdir /mnt/qcow2

1	root@ankara:/data/rhcevms# mkdir /mnt/qcow2

Mounting qcow2 disk If you do not know the disk partition name you can use bogus partition name. In this case I used “asssd”. guestmount showed me available partitions on the disk. […]

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