Hi, someone know how to install/configure a domain for starting Windows? I have a server Dell, arrived just now, and I would like to try Windows in a Xen domain. -- Marco Natali <marco@natali.com> _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Until you don''t have a Computer with Intel Vanderpool CPUs and Xen 3.0 you can''t install Windows. Am Freitag, den 16.12.2005, 16:19 +0100 schrieb Marco Natali:> Hi, > someone know how to install/configure a domain for starting Windows? > I have a server Dell, arrived just now, and I would like to try > Windows in a Xen domain. > > -- > Marco Natali <marco@natali.com> > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Until you don''t have a Computer with Intel Vanderpool CPUs and Xen 3.0 you can''t install Windows in a DomU. Am Freitag, den 16.12.2005, 16:19 +0100 schrieb Marco Natali:> Hi, > someone know how to install/configure a domain for starting Windows? > I have a server Dell, arrived just now, and I would like to try > Windows in a Xen domain. > > -- > Marco Natali <marco@natali.com> > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
I don''t think you can unless you are running AMD Pacifica or Intel VT as kernels need to be modified to work in a guest without that and you obviously cant do that with windows. Regards, Jamie Moore ________________________________ From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com [mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Marco Natali Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 7:19 AM To: xen-users@lists.xensource.com Subject: [Xen-users] Windows in a DomU Hi, someone know how to install/configure a domain for starting Windows? I have a server Dell, arrived just now, and I would like to try Windows in a Xen domain. -- Marco Natali <marco@natali.com> _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
on Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 04:19:02PM +0100, Marco Natali (marco@natali.com) wrote:> Hi, > someone know how to install/configure a domain for starting Windows? > I have a server Dell, arrived just now, and I would like to try Windows > in a Xen domain.There''s a few things you should know, unofficial and subject to change. MS Windows on Xen requires Intel VT or AMD Pacifica hardware, enabled in BIOS. Windows won''t run on x86 CPUs lacking hardware virtualization support. These products are not yet in general circulation. Note that with VT/Pacifica support, MS Windows as a DomU is possible. Windows as Dom0 is not. There was some early exploratory work involving a patched NT kernel which ran paravirtualized under Xen, however this hasn''t (and likely won''t) be released publicly. Quoting an earlier message: The XenoXP work is not currently under active development. Whilst there is no *technical* reason that it can''t be done (and it would actually be much easier with the new Xen hypervisor interface), there are many tricky political/legal issues. There''s some support for running Windows in the current public Xen tree, and you may be able to boot a Windows image. There''s some discussion on this in earlier posts to the xen-devel mailing list, you may want to browse the archives for pointers. There''s a lot of active development, you shouldn''t expect stuff that works, but if you''re interested in contributing to the codebase, your participation would be welcomed. If you''re looking for current levels of satisfaction, you might try running Windows under qemu, which does work, albeit with a significant (but generally tolerable / usable) performance overhead. Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self <karsten@xensource.com> XenSource, Inc. 2300 Geng Road #250 +1 650.798.5900 x259 Palo Alto, CA 94303 +1 650.493.1579 fax _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users