Windows xp guest from .iso, can't start, and doesn't appear in 'xm list'

Question

the vm in question is ecrion-winxp
I successfully created the .iso resource, and created the vm from it. Fully virtualized. The vm cannot start. Here is the log provided by OVM Manager:
Start - /OVS/running_pool/585_ecrion-winxp
PowerOn successfully.
Update server -oraclevm-6.vancouver.monexa.com
Update Port - 0.0
Update VM Status - Running
Configure CPU Cap
Set CPU Cap: failed:<Exception: failed:<Exception: ['xm', 'sched-credit', '-d', '585_ecrion-winxp', '-c', '0'] => Error: Domain '585_ecrion-winxp' does not exist.
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StackTrace:
File "/opt/ovs-agent-2.3/OVSXXenVMConfig.py", line 2500, in xen_set_cpu_cap
run_cmd(args=['xm',
File "/opt/ovs-agent-2.3/OVSCommons.py", line 85, in run_cmd
raise Exception('%s => %s' % (cmdlist, p.childerr.read()))
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StackTrace:
File "/opt/ovs-agent-2.3/OVSSiteVMConfig.py", line 1110, in set_vm_cpu_cap
if not rs.startswith("success"): raise Exception(rs)
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here is the log of the vm creation:
Check memory, mac address and networktype
Register virtual machine img
Register virtual machine geninfo
Register virtual machine networks
Register virtual machine disks
Register virtual machine cdrom
Create HVM: preJobs
Success.
postJobs
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here is 'xm list':
Name ID Mem VCPUs State Time(s)
403_linuxapitest-1 28 4096 4 -b---- 22833.5
468_template_builder 8 1024 1 -b---- 24761.2
505_devel-43 38 1024 4 -b---- 4870.7
525_staging-46 35 4096 16 -b---- 26736.3
533_staging-47 27 4096 16 -b---- 311183.5
541_staging-45 32 2048 4 -b---- 5504.5
545_devel-42 36 4096 16 -b---- 15097.3
Domain-0
(obviously my vm is missing)
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here is 'ls -ltr /etc/xen'
total 152
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6776 May 18 2009 xmexample.vti
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6924 May 18 2009 xmexample.pv-grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 694 May 18 2009 xmexample.nbd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11904 May 18 2009 xmexample.hvm-stubdom
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13903 May 18 2009 xmexample.hvm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8494 May 18 2009 xmexample3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8803 May 18 2009 xmexample2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7513 May 18 2009 xmexample1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1559 May 18 2009 xm-config.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4129 May 18 2009 xend-pci-quirks.sxp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1256 May 18 2009 xend-pci-permissive.sxp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 948 May 18 2009 README.incompatibilities
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2953 May 18 2009 README
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 840 May 18 2009 qemu-ifup
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 13 2010 scripts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9923 Dec 13 2010 xend-config.sxp
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 468 Dec 15 2010 401_linuxapitest-1
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 468 Dec 15 2010 403_linuxapitest-1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 15:42 auto
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 467 Mar 16 16:24 493_linuxpatcher-1
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 467 Mar 16 17:35 495_linuxpatcher-2
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 650 Jul 19 13:15 565_ecrion-windows-1
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 642 Jul 19 16:37 585_ecrion-winxp
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So it appears my vm is not being created fully, though the log says it is. How can I address this?
thanks

Answer 1

Turns out I had created the .iso file incorrectly. I dragged the whole CD icon into the compilation window of CDBurnerXP. What I should have done was start with Disk Copy from the main menu. Then choose .iso as type and hard disk as destination, and you're good to go. Now the vm works fine. Installing all the windows updates now.