[Xen-users] Re: Announcing the Release of the World's First 64-bit Build of Google's Chromium OS with Xen Virtualization Support

["Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)" <space.time.universe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Detailed Instructions for Installing and Running Windows XP HVM Virtual Machine on the Bundled Xen 3.4.3-RC1-pre + 64-bit Google Chrome OS Live USB Image


After verifying that the installation and execution of Fedora 11 Linux PV virtual machine works with the bundled Xen 3.4.3-rc1-pre + 64-bit Google Chrome OS, I proceeded to installing and running Windows XP as a HVM virtual machine.

Here are the exact steps:

Remount the root filesystem (/) in read-write mode.

$ sudo mount -o remount,rw /

Start the xend daemon.

$ sudo service xend start

Configure Xen networking.

$ sudo ifconfig eth0 up

$ sudo dhclient eth0

Check that the dynamic configuration of network interface eth0 works.

$ sudo ifconfig eth0

Check that the entries in the kernel routing table are correct.

$ route

Check that the domain name servers have been configured correctly by the DHCP protocol.

$ cat /etc/resolv.conf

Mount the disk partition containing disk images of all the virtual machines.

$ sudo mount /dev/sdc4 /virtualmachines

$ cd /virtualmachines

Create a 5 GB virtual harddisk for installing Windows XP as a virtual machine.

$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=windows-xp.img bs=1 count=1 seek=5G

$ cd /etc/xen

Configure firewalling rules.

Allow incoming VNC connections.

$ sudo iptables -I INPUT 4 -p tcp --dport 5900 -j ACCEPT

Set the default firewall policies to ACCEPT for the FORWARD and OUTPUT chains.

$ sudo iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT

$ sudo iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT

Create Windows XP HVM virtual machine configuration file.

$ sudo vi windows

import os, re
arch = os.uname()[4]
if re.search('64', arch):
    arch_libdir = 'lib64'
else:
    arch_libdir = 'lib'

kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
builder='hvm'
memory = 3072 

# Should be at least 2KB per MB of domain memory, plus a few MB per vcpu.
shadow_memory = 8
name = "winxphome32"
vif = [ 'bridge=eth0' ]
acpi = 1
apic = 1
disk = [ 'file:/virtualmachines/windows-xp.img,hda,w', 'phy:/dev/sr0,hdc:cdrom,r' ]

device_model = '/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm'

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# boot on floppy (a), hard disk (c) or CD-ROM (d) 
# default: hard disk, cd-rom, floppy
boot="cd"
sdl=0
vnc=1
vnclisten="<IP address of domain 0>"
vncdisplay=0
vncconsole=0
vncpasswd=''

serial='pty'
usbdevice='tablet'

Start the Windows XP HVM virtual machine.

$ sudo xm create windows

You will need to use a VNC viewer on another computer or laptop to remote in on the Windows XP virtual machine installation.

For example,

$ vncviewer <IP address of domain 0>

or

$ xtightvncviewer <IP address of domain 0>

Follow through the Windows XP virtual machine installation and you are done. Using the same concept outlined above, you can also create Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, and/or Windows Server 2008 virtual machines with the bundled Xen 3.4.3-rc1-pre + 64-bit Google Chrome OS Live USB image.


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(2) National University of Singapore
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