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

John Wilson
2005-09-15T18:53:40Z

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
>>