Re: [Xen-users] Best non-Xen environment to create a WinXP HVM to move to Xen hosting

["Fajar A. Nugraha" <fajar@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Chris 'Xenon' Hanson
<xenon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  I don't have a Xen box at my office, so I'm wondering which environment is 
> best for
> preparing and building a WinXP HVM image/instance?

In theory, any virtualization should work, with some efforts. The
usual methods for cloning windows installation can be applied.
I prefer virtualbox though:
- install XP on virtualbox with default settings (which should have
APIC disabled)
- install IDE drivers (just to be sure):
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows
- create suitable xen HVM config
- convert vbox disk image to raw (using "VBoxManage clonehd")

-- 
Fajar

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