Anant,
i wrote you an email two weeks ago:
opensuse 10.2 has a really nice xen package, at the moment i have
sucessfully installed the following hvm domu:
winxp
solaris10
fedora6
ubuntu 6.1
the yast gui for setting up domu works perfectly for me.
cheers
frank
>
> Hi,
>
> So as you said do i have to create own kernel and Xen utils...
> I am really not sure how can i do that. Should i first try out this with
> some other distro say SuSE 10 and other XEN version. Would it make any
> difference ?
> As there are many who have successfully installed windows on top of xen, so
> i really cant guess where i am going wrong.
> I have tried each and every way in FC6 and XEN 3.0.3 but cant get that
> working.
> Yeah i have got 1024 MB RAM with SuSE 10 as a guest. Do you think its less
> to have wind xp aswell.
> Thanks
>
>
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
> >
> > Tim Post wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 07:39 -0800, anant wrote:
> >>> I dont understand what you are trying to say here.
> >>
> >> I thought he was pretty clear ...
> >>
> >>> My simple question was is it possible to have windows XP on top of XEN
> >>> or
> >>> not.
> >>
> >> Yes, it is if your hardware permits it. Did you bother to read the Xen
> >> wiki?
> >>
> >>> If it is possible then i want to know who have successfully
> >>> implemented it and how.
> >>
> >> Lots of people who read the Wiki, as the how-to's on the wiki detail ...
> >>
> >>> These are two different things.
> >>> So if you have really implemented it then i would be pleased to know how
> >>> you
> >>> achieved that install .
> >>
> >> Read the wiki .. , www.xensource.com is a great place to start ..
> >>
> >>> If not then that documentation is probably right
> >>> which says its release is due in coming year by march.
> >>
> >> I think you've illustrated a problem and I'm not quite sure what can be
> >> done about it. Many people are putting up tutorials, documentation on
> >> their own personal wikis which gets into search engines, sometimes on
> >> top of XenSource depending on the SEO efforts of the webmaster.
> >>
> >> Then, they never bother to update the information, some of it is not
> >> even dated. People go to Google, find this information and get instantly
> >> confused.
> >>
> >> You'll find this list is very helpful and open / friendly to anyone who
> >> has at least *tried* something and shows obvious signs of reading the
> >> Xen wiki. Indications of this would be :
> >>
> >> "I tried to install Windows as a HVM guest as outlined in this howto
> >> (link..) , but its failing because of this error (log snippet), did I
> >> follow an old tutorial or something? Where did I go wrong?"
> >>
> >> ... is good.
> >>
> >> "Does windows run on top of Xen?"
> >>
> >> ... not good.
> >
> > Sounds perfectly good. He is asking if it really can be done, not
> > (currently) for how to do it.
> >
> > And if he's running FC6, I would say that there are many HOWTOs, all of
> > which end in a dead hung virtual machine at start of install. So the
> > answer would be "not unless you build your own kernel and xen utils."
> >
> >
> > --
> > bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
> > CTO TMR Associates, Inc
> > Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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