Re: [Xen-users] Windows on Xen+VT

John Wilson
2005-09-16T12:08:56Z

Hey,

I had serious speed issues using the vnc options...
BUT...
If you put ''stdvga=1'' into the config file and disable vnc, it
opens up the
viewer window automatically and provides a significant performance boost to
windows...:)

John


Quoting Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk>:

> You should be able to spawn the vncviewer automatically from xm (and have
the
> device emulation automatically connect to it).  Try setting: vnc=1 to start
> the server and vncviewer=''yes'' in the config to spawn a
VNC viewer
>
> It should work - otherwise the code in create.py and image.py can probably
be
> hacked to fix it without too much difficulty.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
> On Thursday 15 September 2005 19:53, John Wilson wrote:
>> How I managed to get VMX up and running:
>>
>> 1) Perform a Xen 3.0 source build with libvncserver installed
>> 2) Modify the VMX config file and ''xm create -f
vmx.img''
>> 3) After confirmation of domain creation, ''netstat
-nat'' to look for the
>> vnc server (on port 590X)... mine was located at ip 0.0.0.0:5901
>> 4) vncviewer 0.0.0.0:5901
>>
>> And the VNC window opens up displaying the VMX domain in all its
wonderful
>> glory:-)
>>
>> My config file was just the vmx example with the image file changed.
>>
>> John
>>
>> Quoting "Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh"
>>
>> > John,
>> >
>> > I have been trying to get VNC to work with VMX domains. I have the
>> > libvnc library installed. I have been able to get it working only
get
>> > SDL. Could you please tell me what steps you followed? It would
also be
>> > helpful if you could get me a copy of your Windows VMX
domain''s xm
>> > config file.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Aravindh
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: John Wilson [mailto:j.wilson@student.manchester.ac.uk]
>> >> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 3:55 PM
>> >> To: xen-users@lists.xensource.com
>> >> Subject: [Xen-users] Windows on Xen+VT
>> >>
>> >> To all you guys who have managed to get Windows up on Xen...
>> >>
>> >> Its early days for me as I only figured out how to get it up
and
>> >
>> > running
>> >
>> >> through vnc today, but basically it runs rather slowly, and I
wonder
>> >
>> > if
>> >
>> >> anyone has any experience on ''best
practices'' and such when creating
>> >
>> > WinXP
>> >
>> >> virtual machines.
>> >>
>> >> I''m currently using an image that boots to windows
setup I made using
>> >> QEMU,
>> >> and it boots fine, tells me its resuming setup, then blue
screens with
>> >
>> > a
>> >
>> >> reference to an infinite loop being detected in the framebuf
driver.
>> >> (Although I think it might just be detecting extreme slowness
as this
>> >> infinite loop).
>> >>
>> >> 1) So how to speed it up/why would it be going so slowly? (my
linux
>> >
>> > VMX
>> >
>> >> machines don''t exactly burn rubber either)
>> >> 2) Should I fully install windows onto the image with QEMU
first?
>> >> 3) Should the video output be configured for full screen, as
opposed
>> >
>> > to
>> >
>> >> windowed as it is currently?
>> >> 4)Is there any possibility at all that a VMX domain
(especially
>> >
>> > windows)
>> >
>> >> could be run on a non-VT machine? (Beacause its a very new
>> >
>> > pre-production
>> >
>> >> bios and platform, and even though it''s set up in the
bios for VT, I
>> >
>> > don''t
>> >
>> >> really trust it and it seems a little suspiciously slow... I
suppose I
>> >> could test this in the lab really:-)
>> >> 5) Anything else I should know?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> John
>>
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