[Xen-users] Windows on Xen+VT

John Wilson
2005-09-14T19:54:32Z

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