Yevgeniy Goldberg
2007-Apr-26 03:10 UTC
[Xen-users] Convert virtual guest into paravirtual
Greetings, Is there a way to convert a guest OS that was created as fully virtualized into a paravirtual? I''ve been struggling with installing a windows guest OS as paravirtual because it required to create a local nfs share of the installation CD and I was unable to figure that out. I ended up installing the OS as fully virtualized. I will face the same issue tomorrow as I attempt to install Solaris 10 as guest OS. Is there a way to convert it to a para? -Eugene _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
For that u have to change the code of windows that u cant do. So u cant convert a fully windos os guest to para guest. Para Guest OS awares about the xen hypervisor. for that purpose there code is to be modified. So simply if anyone want para windows guest then windows should be aware about the xen-hypervisor and its code shuold be modified accordinly. But it is not opensource so we cant to do anything. Thanks, --Trilok On 4/26/07, Yevgeniy Goldberg <thegoldberg@mac.com> wrote:> > Greetings, > > Is there a way to convert a guest OS that was created as fully > virtualized into a paravirtual? > I''ve been struggling with installing a windows guest OS as > paravirtual because it required to create a local nfs share of the > installation CD and I was unable to figure that out. > I ended up installing the OS as fully virtualized. > > I will face the same issue tomorrow as I attempt to install Solaris > 10 as guest OS. > Is there a way to convert it to a para? > > -Eugene > > _______________________________________________ > 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
On 4/26/07, Yevgeniy Goldberg <thegoldberg@mac.com> wrote:> > Greetings, > > Is there a way to convert a guest OS that was created as fully > virtualized into a paravirtual? > I''ve been struggling with installing a windows guest OS as > paravirtual because it required to create a local nfs share of the > installation CD and I was unable to figure that out. > I ended up installing the OS as fully virtualized. > > I will face the same issue tomorrow as I attempt to install Solaris > 10 as guest OS.Do your solaris has xen enabled kernel in this. If yes then u can create this as para guest. as i read on googl that solaris 10 has xen support. Read here. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2071108,00.asp Creating of para guest is same for almost all distributions. For more details u can look to xen user manual. Is there a way to convert it to a para?> > -Eugene > > _______________________________________________ > 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
Yevgeniy Goldberg
2007-Apr-26 13:46 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] Convert virtual guest into paravirtual
Thanks Trilok! Xen on Solaris 10 is a very good info for me. Cheers -Eugene On Apr 26, 2007, at 1:01 AM, trilok nuwal wrote:> > > On 4/26/07, Yevgeniy Goldberg <thegoldberg@mac.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > Is there a way to convert a guest OS that was created as fully > virtualized into a paravirtual? > I''ve been struggling with installing a windows guest OS as > paravirtual because it required to create a local nfs share of the > installation CD and I was unable to figure that out. > I ended up installing the OS as fully virtualized. > > I will face the same issue tomorrow as I attempt to install Solaris > 10 as guest OS. > > Do your solaris has xen enabled kernel in this. If yes then u can > create this as para guest. > as i read on googl that solaris 10 has xen support. > Read here. > > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2071108,00.asp > > Creating of para guest is same for almost all distributions. For > more details u can look to xen user manual. > > > > Is there a way to convert it to a para? > > -Eugene > > _______________________________________________ > 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