Re: [Xen-users] Windows guest OS

[mark pryor <tlviewer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Brian Bentley <bentley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  I have a Lenovo T60p set up to dual boot Windows xp and SuSE 10.2. I 
> installed Xen while installing SuSE 10.2. I'm at the point where when 
> I get the list of choices on what to boot the machine with, I also 
> see SuSE 10.2 [Xen]. What I want to do now is get the Windows xp 
> partition to boot as a Xen guest OS.
>
> I haven't been able to find a concise document that describes an easy 
> process, but after surfing mailing list archives and the web for a 
> while, this is what I've found that comes closest:
>
> http://www.mycomputingart.com/linux/Z24.xen3-winxp-partition.html?seemore=y
>
> http://www.mycomputingart.com/linux/Z24.xen3-ubuntu-amd64.html
>
> These describe a...primitive...process. Do these capture the state of 
> the art, or have I missed
>  something?

Mike,

I don't know this if this hardware supports Virtualization, which I believe is needed to run Windows in full-V. What you want to do is para-V.

In para-V, the most important thing to realize is that with Grub as your bootloader your whole drive needs to be imported to your domU; further WinXP needs to be default in Grub or you will likely freeze when starting your domU.

If you want speed, then you might want to try a full-V (if your HW supports it) and skip para-V, which you will find is very slow.

I made a sparse file img for my NTFS drive and did full-V -- wow the speed difference is huge.

hth,
Mark

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