Hi All, I’m curious as to the feasibility of running Xen on my laptop. I have a Dell E6500 with an NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M graphics card, 4 gigs of RAM, and an Intel C2D P8400. I’d like to be able to passthrough the Nvidia card to a Windows based VM when I want to so that I can use windows based apps on one of the ctrl+f7/f8/f9 consoles but still have a *nix as the host OS to do my general day to day work. Is this even feasible? Thanks, Ryan _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
whats your distro ? ubuntu, fedora, Centos, suse ? On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Ryan Holt <ryan@ryanholt.net> wrote:> Hi All, > > > > I’m curious as to the feasibility of running Xen on my laptop. I have a > Dell E6500 with an NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M graphics card, 4 gigs of RAM, and > an Intel C2D P8400. I’d like to be able to passthrough the Nvidia card to a > Windows based VM when I want to so that I can use windows based apps on one > of the ctrl+f7/f8/f9 consoles but still have a *nix as the host OS to do my > general day to day work. Is this even feasible? > > > > Thanks, > > Ryan > > _______________________________________________ > 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 can use whatever. In the past I''ve used Gentoo/Funtoo and most recently Archlinux. For work I''ve used Debian, CentOS, etc. I prefer Debian based, but am open to others. On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com>wrote:> whats your distro ? ubuntu, fedora, Centos, suse ? > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Ryan Holt <ryan@ryanholt.net> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> >> >> I’m curious as to the feasibility of running Xen on my laptop. I have a >> Dell E6500 with an NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M graphics card, 4 gigs of RAM, and >> an Intel C2D P8400. I’d like to be able to passthrough the Nvidia card to a >> Windows based VM when I want to so that I can use windows based apps on one >> of the ctrl+f7/f8/f9 consoles but still have a *nix as the host OS to do my >> general day to day work. Is this even feasible? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Ryan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Xen-users mailing list >> Xen-users@lists.xensource.com >> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >> > >-- Thanks, Ryan _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Theres a XEN on Ubuntu (Debian) HOWTO floating around if you search the mailing list im sure you can find it On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Ryan Holt <ryan@ryanholt.net> wrote:> I can use whatever. In the past I''ve used Gentoo/Funtoo and most recently > Archlinux. For work I''ve used Debian, CentOS, etc. I prefer Debian based, > but am open to others. > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com>wrote: > >> whats your distro ? ubuntu, fedora, Centos, suse ? >> >> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Ryan Holt <ryan@ryanholt.net> wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> >>> >>> I’m curious as to the feasibility of running Xen on my laptop. I have a >>> Dell E6500 with an NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M graphics card, 4 gigs of RAM, and >>> an Intel C2D P8400. I’d like to be able to passthrough the Nvidia card to a >>> Windows based VM when I want to so that I can use windows based apps on one >>> of the ctrl+f7/f8/f9 consoles but still have a *nix as the host OS to do my >>> general day to day work. Is this even feasible? >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Ryan >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Xen-users mailing list >>> Xen-users@lists.xensource.com >>> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >>> >> >> > > > -- > Thanks, > Ryan >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
I believe I wasn''t specific enough. I''m curious as to whether or not I can do the passthrough of the built in VGA card on the laptop an run Windows directly on a console. I know how to setup / use Xen already. On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com>wrote:> Theres a XEN on Ubuntu (Debian) HOWTO floating around if you search the > mailing list im sure you can find it > > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Ryan Holt <ryan@ryanholt.net> wrote: > >> I can use whatever. In the past I''ve used Gentoo/Funtoo and most recently >> Archlinux. For work I''ve used Debian, CentOS, etc. I prefer Debian based, >> but am open to others. >> >> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> whats your distro ? ubuntu, fedora, Centos, suse ? >>> >>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Ryan Holt <ryan@ryanholt.net> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I’m curious as to the feasibility of running Xen on my laptop. I have a >>>> Dell E6500 with an NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M graphics card, 4 gigs of RAM, and >>>> an Intel C2D P8400. I’d like to be able to passthrough the Nvidia card to a >>>> Windows based VM when I want to so that I can use windows based apps on one >>>> of the ctrl+f7/f8/f9 consoles but still have a *nix as the host OS to do my >>>> general day to day work. Is this even feasible? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Ryan >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Xen-users mailing list >>>> Xen-users@lists.xensource.com >>>> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> Ryan >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >-- Thanks, Ryan _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users