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RE: [Xen-users] Running MS Windows as domU without Intel VT?

To: "Alex Polite" <notmyprivateemail@xxxxxxxxx>, Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Running MS Windows as domU without Intel VT?
From: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:44:25 +0200
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Alex Polite
> Sent: 27 September 2006 15:39
> To: Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Xen-users] Running MS Windows as domU without Intel VT?
> 
> Hi again.
> 
> I noticed that wine won't run under Xen. I use Internet Explorer under
> Wine  to test sites I build. (My alternative is to run IE via VNC
> which is sort of sluggish.) I've tried to google this but get drowend
> in posts about Xen, XP and Intel VT.

I don't understand why wine shouldn't work under Xen - what symptoms do
you have?
[I have not much knowledge of how wine works, so there may be something
obvious that I've missed...]

It sounds like something that someone with the right knowledge could fix
quite easily... 


> 
> Is it at all possible to run XP under Xen without a VT CPU (maybe
> using some "improved" version of XP?)

Maybe VMWare's approach will work for you? That, as far as I know, works
without any "new technology" in the CPU. 

--
Mats
> 
> alex
> 
> 
> 
> BTW, thanks to those who responded about resource monitoring. For now
> I've turned of swapping in one of my domUs  that was thrashing the
> entire system. This gives my some strange messages in the syslog when
> I run out of memory but the domU seems to hold up anyway. I'll put in
> another DIMM and hopefully that will be the end of it.
> 
> -- 
> Alex Polite
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