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

Mark Williamson
2005-09-16T00:33:10Z

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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