Hi all I am trying to get VMX guests working on my new server here. The machine has a Pentium D 920 on an ASUS P5WD2-E motherboard. I''ve updated the BIOS to the latest 0401, which added the virtualization option. I am running a fresh installation of Gentoo (64-bit). When I try and run ''xm create'' on a vmx config file, I get the following error: Error: Error creating domain: unknown image type: vmx I took a quick look at the python source where this error is output, but I am not familiar enough with Python to fully trace it. This is the latest ''unstable'' snapshot in the portage tree, changeset 9029. I can''t determine whether this is an issue with vmx support simply not being built-in (the message seems to suggest this, but I am not sure), or if it''s doing some sort of hardware check to determine if ''vmx'' is allowed. /proc/cpuinfo reports that the ''vmx'' flag is enabled on both processor cores, so I don''t think it''s unhappy with the hardware, but I don''t know enough about the internals to tell. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Dave -- Dave Goodlad dgoodlad@gmail.com or dave@goodlad.ca http://david.goodlad.ca/ _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
### "David Goodlad" <dgoodlad@gmail.com> wrote message to xen-users@lists.xensource.com ### ### this is reply for: [Xen-users] Unknown image type: VMX ###> Hi all > > I am trying to get VMX guests working on my new server here. The > machine has a Pentium D 920 on an ASUS P5WD2-E motherboard. I''ve > updated the BIOS to the latest 0401, which added the virtualization > option. I am running a fresh installation of Gentoo (64-bit). > > When I try and run ''xm create'' on a vmx config file, I get the following > error: > > Error: Error creating domain: unknown image type: vmxcheck unstable version and hvmloader It works for me. -- Rafał Zawadzki Deploy/Release Manager eo Networks Sp. z o.o. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On 3/16/06, Rafal Zawadzki <rafal.zawadzki@eo.pl> wrote:> ### "David Goodlad" <dgoodlad@gmail.com> wrote message to > xen-users@lists.xensource.com ### > ### this is reply for: [Xen-users] Unknown image type: VMX ### > > Hi all > > > > I am trying to get VMX guests working on my new server here. The > > machine has a Pentium D 920 on an ASUS P5WD2-E motherboard. I've > > updated the BIOS to the latest 0401, which added the virtualization > > option. I am running a fresh installation of Gentoo (64-bit). > > > > When I try and run 'xm create' on a vmx config file, I get the following > > error: > > > > Error: Error creating domain: unknown image type: vmx > > check unstable version and hvmloader > > It works for me. > > -- > Rafał Zawadzki > Deploy/Release Manager > eo Networks Sp. z o.o. > >Hi Rafal Yes, that worked nicely, thank-you! I can get the WinXP cd to boot now. The only problem is that input via VNC is incredibly slow (30+ seconds to register a keypress). Normal vm operation is fine, with everything that doesn't depend on user input (copying files, loading drivers, etc) runs as quick as it would if it were running independently of Xen. Any idea why? Thanks again, Dave -- Dave Goodlad dgoodlad@gmail.com or dave@goodlad.ca http://david.goodlad.ca/ _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
>Yes, that worked nicely, thank-you! I can get the WinXP cd to boot>The only problem is that input via VNC is incredibly slow (30+ seconds >to register a keypress). Normal vm operation is fine, with everything try using SDL on the host for installation of you Win-guest. If finished you can use RDP, this gives you acceptable performance! Unfortunately SDL seems also having problems on some systems and then you just have bad luck and you have to live with the bad performance during installation - I didn''t found a solution for me on that! -- Chau y hasta luego, Thorolf _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On 3/16/06, Thorolf Godawa <nospam@godawa.de> wrote:> >Yes, that worked nicely, thank-you! I can get the WinXP cd to boot > >The only problem is that input via VNC is incredibly slow (30+ seconds > >to register a keypress). Normal vm operation is fine, with everything > try using SDL on the host for installation of you Win-guest. If finished > you can use RDP, this gives you acceptable performance! > > Unfortunately SDL seems also having problems on some systems and then > you just have bad luck and you have to live with the bad performance > during installation - I didn''t found a solution for me on that!Ok, I''ll give SDL a try; it''s odd that vnc''s graphics performance is so good (where ''good'' is a relative term!), but keyboard/mouse input is terrible. I wish I had the time to investigate this more thoroughly; it doesn''t seem like it would be too big an issue to solve! Thanks Dave -- Dave Goodlad dgoodlad@gmail.com or dave@goodlad.ca http://david.goodlad.ca/ _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> Yes, that worked nicely, thank-you! I can get the WinXP cd to boot now.> The only problem is that input via VNC is incredibly slow (30+ seconds > to register a keypress). Normal vm operation is fine, with everything > that doesn''t depend on user input (copying files, loading drivers, > etc) runs as quick as it would if it were running independently of > Xen. Any idea why?I didn''t manage to run it with VNC even, only sdl. With sld it is also slow. -- Rafał Zawadzki Deploy/Release Manager eo Networks Sp. z o.o. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hi all, Would you like to share with this mailing list how you succeeded in starting WinXP under XEN or provide us a link which describes this? Thanks, Rene On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 11:15 -0800, David Goodlad wrote:> On 3/16/06, Rafal Zawadzki <rafal.zawadzki@eo.pl> wrote: > > ### "David Goodlad" <dgoodlad@gmail.com> wrote message to > > xen-users@lists.xensource.com ### > > ### this is reply for: [Xen-users] Unknown image type: VMX ### > > > Hi all > > > > > > I am trying to get VMX guests working on my new server here. The > > > machine has a Pentium D 920 on an ASUS P5WD2-E motherboard. I''ve > > > updated the BIOS to the latest 0401, which added the virtualization > > > option. I am running a fresh installation of Gentoo (64-bit). > > > > > > When I try and run ''xm create'' on a vmx config file, I get the following > > > error: > > > > > > Error: Error creating domain: unknown image type: vmx > > > > check unstable version and hvmloader > > > > It works for me. > > > > -- > > Rafał Zawadzki > > Deploy/Release Manager > > eo Networks Sp. z o.o. > > > > > > Hi Rafal > > Yes, that worked nicely, thank-you! I can get the WinXP cd to boot now. > > The only problem is that input via VNC is incredibly slow (30+ seconds > to register a keypress). Normal vm operation is fine, with everything > that doesn''t depend on user input (copying files, loading drivers, > etc) runs as quick as it would if it were running independently of > Xen. Any idea why? > > Thanks again, > Dave > > -- > Dave Goodlad > dgoodlad@gmail.com or dave@goodlad.ca > http://david.goodlad.ca/ > _______________________________________________ > 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