Bit of a n00b question.... I am currently running F8-Dom0 with an HVM-based Windows XP DomU. I tend to run it from virt-manager the occasional times I use it. Given that F9-Dom0 support is still a work-in-progress, I started reading about KVM existing in the "regular" kernel. Since the Dom0 is my main "work" platform, I am considering upgrading to F9, but, losing Xen. The question becomes, can I run the existing Windows XP instance under virt-manager via KVM? BTW, the disk for Windows XP is an LV, and I would prefer to continue NAT''ing it to the outside, if that matters.... Some of the doc''s on fedoraproject.org started identifying parity between KVM and Qemu (which I thought is what is used for HVM).... Am I totally insane, or on to a potential solution that lets me move my Dom0 to F9? Thanks for any pointers/help, --Rob
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 15:58 -0400, Robert Locke wrote:> Bit of a n00b question.... > > I am currently running F8-Dom0 with an HVM-based Windows XP DomU. I > tend to run it from virt-manager the occasional times I use it. > > Given that F9-Dom0 support is still a work-in-progress, I started > reading about KVM existing in the "regular" kernel. > > Since the Dom0 is my main "work" platform, I am considering upgrading to > F9, but, losing Xen. > > The question becomes, can I run the existing Windows XP instance under > virt-manager via KVM? BTW, the disk for Windows XP is an LV, and I > would prefer to continue NAT''ing it to the outside, if that matters....Yes. Windows will probably ask you to reactivate, since it sees a significant change in the underlying hardware.> > Some of the doc''s on fedoraproject.org started identifying parity > between KVM and Qemu (which I thought is what is used for HVM).... > > Am I totally insane, or on to a potential solution that lets me move my > Dom0 to F9? > > Thanks for any pointers/help, > > --Rob > > > -- > Fedora-xen mailing list > Fedora-xen@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 03:58:19PM -0400, Robert Locke wrote:> The question becomes, can I run the existing Windows XP instance under > virt-manager via KVM? BTW, the disk for Windows XP is an LV, and I > would prefer to continue NAT''ing it to the outside, if that matters....Yes and no. It will probably work, but in my experience it was quite sensitive to the exact version of KVM & whether features such as ACPI were enabled or disabled. Maybe XP is better -- I was using W2K8. Note that KVM requires hardware virtualization support in your CPU and (for Intel) BIOS. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v