I am trying to install MCE as a virtual machine running on XenServer. I have tried this several times now over a few months and unfortunately each time without success. I have the latest XenServer release v5.6 SP2 and the latest snapshot (Linux MCE-8.10-24056-i386.iso 11-Jun-2011 00:18 3.7G).
Basically I can install Kubuntu and reboot. I can run the MCE installer from the desktop with no problem. It says that the first phase is complete and to reboot. When I reboot I have no GUI, just the CLI. I can login into the CLI and run startx to get back to a GUI. Once in the GUI nothing happens. I try running the installer again but the process just repeats.
Only thing I can add is the XenServer tools are not installed nor am I able to install them. After some googling on this it suggests that the VM needs to be made PV aware instead of HVM? I have found a documet on ubuntu 10.4 (jansipke.nl/installing-xenserver-tools-on-ubuntu-10-04) but this I think is likely not to be helping but am way out my depth now.
Is this likely to be the issue and if so, is there a way to make the changes as per the URL to an already instlled instance? If not a likely cause, has anybody got any ideas on where to go from here.
Many thanks in advance.
James
