Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 615928
balloon service can not be started in win7 guest with administrator member
Last modified: 2015-03-04 19:51:56 EST
Description of problem: Balloon service can not be started in win7 guest with user(created during installation guest), and this user included in Administrator group. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): virtio-win-1.1.8-0 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Run win7 guest /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -m 2G -smp 2 -cpu qemu64,+x2apic -usbdevice tablet -drive file=/root/win7-32.qcow2.el5,if=none,id=drive-virtio0,boot=on,werror=stop,rerror=stop,cache=none -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=drive-virtio0,id=virtio-blk-pci0 -netdev tap,id=hostnet0,script=/etc/qemu-ifup -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,mac=02:00:16:3F:45:1f,bus=pci.0 -uuid 1234127c-1233-4e67-95da-8dd0a8891cc4 -name win7 -qmp tcp:0:4444,server,nowait -boot c -monitor stdio -boot c -device virtio-balloon-pci,bus=pci.0 -vnc :2 2.Login using user your created during install this guest 3.Install virtio balloon driver 4.Reboot guest 5.Install balloon service (under driver sub directory) using: blnsrv.exe -i Actual results: Balloon service can not be started, error prompts: OpenSCManager failed, error code=5 Expected results: This service should be started Additional info: 1.This service can be started using "administrator" user. 2.And after start balloon service using administrator, then switch to default user in step2, the service can be restart, stop or pause by default user. 3.For winxp guest, balloon service can be started by user created during installation.
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Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. New Contents: Balloon service can not be started in win7 guest with user(created during installation guest), and this user included in Administrator group. Please run the service under the administrator user only.
Technical note updated. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. Diffed Contents: @@ -1 +1 @@ -Balloon service can not be started in win7 guest with user(created during installation guest), and this user included in Administrator group. Please run the service under the administrator user only.+The balloon service on Windows 7 guests can only be started by the "Administrator" user.