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Re: [Xen-users] cd-rom access, hvm boot, unstable download from 9-7-2006

To: Alan Murrell <lists@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] cd-rom access, hvm boot, unstable download from 9-7-2006
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maybe Im reading too much into your post, but you install XP in VMWare and then copy it into a xen VM and run it without a VT enabled CPU?

Alan Murrell wrote:
On Monday 11 September 2006 10:46, Yongkang wrote:
The new cdrom usage should like:

disk = [ 'file:/var/images/install.img,hda,w',
'file:/root/installimages/winxpsp2.iso,hdc:cdrom,r' ]

Possibly a stupid question, but if one is not using a VT-enabled CPU (Intel's VT chip or AMD's Pacifica chip), would the above work? (this would be for Xen 3.0+, presumably...?)

I've always thought it a weakness of Xen that you could not install a DomU from CD-ROM (or ISO image, as above).

My machine I am using at home is not a VT-enabled one, so being able to install a guest domain from an ISO would save a few steps in my current process (install to my desktop in VMware --> loopback-mount the disk image on Dom0 --> rsync the filesystem created in VMware to the mounted disk image)

Thanks.

-Alan

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