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

John Wilson
2005-09-15T13:20:34Z

Okay so I did 2)... Windows not runs stably and fine on Xen. But really
really slow though. I tried 3) but no help speeding the system up. I could
really do with a few hints on how to speed up VMX domains though...


Quoting John Wilson <j.wilson@student.manchester.ac.uk>:

> 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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