Is it possible to run Xen on top of VMware? The reason is that I want to try out an installation of Xen with Gentoo as its Dom0, but since I don''t have an idle box, I need to test it on top of VMware. Rgds, -- -- Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/ _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Paravirtualization should be no problem, but HVMs may not work (don''t know about the current state of nested virtualization here). Regards, Felix Am 14.08.2011 15:16, schrieb Pandu Poluan:> Is it possible to run Xen on top of VMware? > > The reason is that I want to try out an installation of Xen with > Gentoo as its Dom0, but since I don''t have an idle box, I need to test > it on top of VMware. > > Rgds, > >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 09:16:37PM +0800, Pandu Poluan wrote:> Is it possible to run Xen on top of VMware? > > The reason is that I want to try out an installation of Xen with > Gentoo as its Dom0, but since I don''t have an idle box, I need to test > it on top of VMware. >Yes, you can. But since VMware does not support Hardware Nested Virtualization, you can only run Xen PV domUs in the Xen in the VMware VM. ie. Xen in the VMware VM does not see and can''t use CPU HVM flags (VMX/SVM), so it''s not possible to run Xen HVM guests. Latest Xen 4.2 (xen-unstable) supports Nested Virtualization. -- Pasi _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
(Sorry for top-posting. Gmail Java mobile client can only top-post.) Thank you for the answer. To me, it''s an acceptable limitation. After all, the current milestone is a bootable Xen + GeDZux (my made-up name == ''Gentoo Domain Zero Linux''). The next milestone would be booting up PV DomUs. When we''re satisfied that the 2nd milestone is relatively gotcha-free, we will then deploy Xen + GeDZux on a physical box, and experiment on booting up HVM DomUs. Rgds, On 2011-08-15, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi> wrote:> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 09:16:37PM +0800, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> Is it possible to run Xen on top of VMware? >> >> The reason is that I want to try out an installation of Xen with >> Gentoo as its Dom0, but since I don''t have an idle box, I need to test >> it on top of VMware. >> > > Yes, you can. > > But since VMware does not support Hardware Nested Virtualization, > you can only run Xen PV domUs in the Xen in the VMware VM. > ie. Xen in the VMware VM does not see and can''t use CPU HVM flags (VMX/SVM), > so it''s not possible to run Xen HVM guests. > > Latest Xen 4.2 (xen-unstable) supports Nested Virtualization. > > -- Pasi > >-- -- Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/ _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users