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> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of anant
> Sent: 21 December 2006 15:39
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Xen-users] RE: Research -> do participate.....
>
>
> I dont understand what you are trying to say here.
> My simple question was is it possible to have windows XP on
> top of XEN or not.
Yes, it's possible and works today. At least if we assume that you mean
running Windows as a guest-OS on top of Xen - if you mean using Windows
as a "Dom0", whilst that's technically possible to achieve, there's
commercial/legal restrictions that prevent this from happening anytime
soon.
> If it is possible then i want to know who have successfully
> implemented it and how. Have you installed WIndows on top of
> XEN or you just say what you read.
I have recently installed Windows 2K3 on my machine here.
> These are two different things.
> So if you have really implemented it then i would be pleased
> to know how you
> achieved that install .
What part of the "install" do you want to know? The steps I took to
implement the code in svm.c and friends in the first instance, or the
step I took to write the configuration file for the installation, the
step(s) I took to insert a DVD in my DVD-drive or something else?
The current version of svm.c (which I use a slightly older version of)
is available in the XenSource today. [Of course, if you're using an
Intel processor, you'd better ask someone else, as I'm working for AMD
and I have not spent any time implementing ANY of the Intel code - aside
from some minor work in the shared section of the HVM code].
There's been several posts with complete or partial configuration files
- search the archive of this mailing list.
If you can't get a DVD to work correctly, sorry - you're on the wrong
list.
> If not then that documentation is
> probably right
> which says its release is due in coming year by march.
> Thanks for your reply anyway
Which documentation?
XenSource just released V3.0.4 which adds to the 3.0.3 by supporting SMP
in Windows. What more do you want?
Yes, I do understand that this is NOT a shrink-wrapped release from SuSE
or RedHat - that will take a few weeks (or more, depending on where in
the release cycles they are, as they run releases in their own cycles,
not necessarily matching up with Xen).
--
Mats
>
>
> Petersson, Mats wrote:
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of anant
> >> Sent: 21 December 2006 15:07
> >> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: [Xen-users] Research -> do participate.....
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >> This is simple research on the present situation of having
> >> windows OS on top
> >> of XEN.
> >> I have got to know that RedHat or SuSE etc doesnt support
> >> Windows as a guest
> >> OS even if its fully virtualized.
> >
> > Well, fully virtualized is the ONLY choice here, so why
> bring that into
> > the equation.
> >
> > Note also that "not supported" doesn't mean that it doesn't
> work - it
> > just means that you have no comeback should you rely on
> this feature. If
> > you buy a Land Rover, it may state in the instruction manual that it
> > doesn't work in water - but it doesn't mean that you absolute can't
> > drive it through a river, just that you can't claim on the
> warranty if
> > you end up sucking in water through the air-intake...
> >
> >> But documentation over the net says that there are many
> >> people who have
> >> successfully installed Windows OS on top of XEN, having LINUX
> >> as a host OS(i
> >> am not sure about which linux version).
> >
> > The important key here is probably more which version of
> Xen that the
> > guest is run upon, rather than which OS is used for the
> host - why would
> > the host matter? It's just there to allow you to do "xm
> create" and to
> > translate disk read requests into file-reads, virtual
> network requests
> > to real network requests, etc. Nothing much depends on the
> HOST os in a
> > Xen implementation.
> >>
> >> So if you have got any information, even if you have not
> >> implement it, do
> >> comment and those who have successfully installed it then do
> >> share it like
> >> on which Host system it worked and all .
> >
> > Isn't this pretty meaningless to post on this list - this
> is a Xen users
> > list, so if they are using Xen, they are bound to use some
> variant of
> > Linux. It's not like Debian, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux
> > or SuSE Enterprise Linux are entirely differnet host OS's -
> they all use
> > the same Linux Kernel - they may have some slightly
> different sets of
> > patches applied to the kernel and of course.
> >
> >>
> >> But as far as i know after lot of research that in coming
> >> year by end of
> >> march RedHat, SuSE would support windows as a guest OS.
> >
> > That is up to RedHat and SuSE, and based on their
> evaluation of the Xen
> > version available at the time, I would expect.
> >
> > --
> > Mats
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