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Re: [Xen-users] Windows on Xen+VT

Hey,

I had serious speed issues using the vnc options...
BUT...
If you put 'stdvga=1' into the config file and disable vnc, it opens up the
viewer window automatically and provides a significant performance boost to
windows...:)

John


Quoting Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

You should be able to spawn the vncviewer automatically from xm (and have the
device emulation automatically connect to it).  Try setting: vnc=1 to start
the server and vncviewer='yes' in the config to spawn a VNC viewer

It should work - otherwise the code in create.py and image.py can probably be
hacked to fix it without too much difficulty.

Cheers,
Mark

On Thursday 15 September 2005 19:53, John Wilson wrote:
How I managed to get VMX up and running:

1) Perform a Xen 3.0 source build with libvncserver installed
2) Modify the VMX config file and 'xm create -f vmx.img'
3) After confirmation of domain creation, 'netstat -nat' to look for the
vnc server (on port 590X)... mine was located at ip 0.0.0.0:5901
4) vncviewer 0.0.0.0:5901

And the VNC window opens up displaying the VMX domain in all its wonderful
glory:-)

My config file was just the vmx example with the image file changed.

John

Quoting "Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh"

> John,
>
> I have been trying to get VNC to work with VMX domains. I have the
> libvnc library installed. I have been able to get it working only get
> SDL. Could you please tell me what steps you followed? It would also be
> helpful if you could get me a copy of your Windows VMX domain's xm
> config file.
>
> Thanks,
> Aravindh
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John Wilson [mailto:j.wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 3:55 PM
>> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [Xen-users] Windows on Xen+VT
>>
>> To all you guys who have managed to get Windows up on Xen...
>>
>> Its early days for me as I only figured out how to get it up and
>
> running
>
>> through vnc today, but basically it runs rather slowly, and I wonder
>
> if
>
>> anyone has any experience on 'best practices' and such when creating
>
> WinXP
>
>> virtual machines.
>>
>> I'm currently using an image that boots to windows setup I made using
>> QEMU,
>> and it boots fine, tells me its resuming setup, then blue screens with
>
> a
>
>> reference to an infinite loop being detected in the framebuf driver.
>> (Although I think it might just be detecting extreme slowness as this
>> infinite loop).
>>
>> 1) So how to speed it up/why would it be going so slowly? (my linux
>
> VMX
>
>> machines don't exactly burn rubber either)
>> 2) Should I fully install windows onto the image with QEMU first?
>> 3) Should the video output be configured for full screen, as opposed
>
> to
>
>> windowed as it is currently?
>> 4)Is there any possibility at all that a VMX domain (especially
>
> windows)
>
>> could be run on a non-VT machine? (Beacause its a very new
>
> pre-production
>
>> bios and platform, and even though it's set up in the bios for VT, I
>
> don't
>
>> really trust it and it seems a little suspiciously slow... I suppose I
>> could test this in the lab really:-)
>> 5) Anything else I should know?
>>
>>
>> John

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