Re: [Xen-users] Windows 2003 HVM Performance

[anant <ANigam@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

As far as i got to know is at the moment SuSE or any RedHat version doesnt
support Windows. And by somewhere in march 2007, the release is due which
supports that. But even i am not sure about this as i got to know about it
through some SuSE documentation and i still dont believe it, so i am doing a
bit research on this and do let me know if you get any success in installing
Windows on top of XEN...I have tried a lot to install it over Fedora Core 6
but result was null....
Thanks

lists-81 wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have recently been trying to install a windows 2003 server on a Xen Dom0
> with
> an AMD X2 CPU.  I've not actually been able to finish the installation due
> to
> the Dom0 host crashing whilst the Windows installation is "registering
> components".  Hopefully the latest version of OpenSUSE (which I'm
> downloading
> at the moment) will fix that? :-)
> 
> During the installation I noticed that the section of the install that
> copied
> files to the harddisc didn't execute very fast which prompted me to google
> for
> xen HVM harddisc performance figures.  I read some references to a windows
> paravirtualised harddisc driver that would improve performance.  Does
> anyone
> know whether paravirtualised drivers are in development?  I also read that
> network performance is near native so would it make sense to install
> windows on
> a partition on the Dom0 and then create a D drive on the windows machine
> using
> an iSCSI initiator?  This would mean that the domU would be relying on
> it's
> near native network performance for harddisc accesses.  Has anyone tried
> this?
> 
> I'd be interested to hear any advice on settings/tweaks to improve windows
> HVM
> performance.
> 
> Many thanks in advance,
> 
> Steve.
> 
> 
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