Hi, I''m trying to install 64 bit Windows XP as an HVM guest machine under Debian Sarge with Xen 3.0.2. I can get OpenBSD, Windows XP 32bit and various linuxs without any problems, but I can''t get the 64 bit version to install. Every time I try to boot from the 64 bit iso I get an error saying that apic is not enabled and that I should enable it in the firmware. I do however have ''apic=1'' set in the xen guest config file. I''m using an Abit AW8-MAX with the latest bios version. Has anyone else managed to get Windows 64 bit installed? Regards, Rowan _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Rowan Woodhouse wrote:> Hi, > > I''m trying to install 64 bit Windows XP as an HVM guest machine under > Debian Sarge with Xen 3.0.2. I can get OpenBSD, Windows XP 32bit and > various linuxs without any problems, but I can''t get the 64 bit > version to install. > > Every time I try to boot from the 64 bit iso I get an error saying > that apic is not enabled and that I should enable it in the firmware. > I do however have ''apic=1'' set in the xen guest config file. > > I''m using an Abit AW8-MAX with the latest bios version. Has anyone > else managed to get Windows 64 bit installed? >Rowan, I remember a posting only a few days ago stating that Xen / HVM is currently not (yet) able to run 64bit Windows ... I don''t know, however, if that was an assumption or stated as fact. Bye, Andrej _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
I''m curious about this method. It seems very convenient, jailtime.org has a bunch you can simply download and run. But how are they in terms of performance? Can''t imagine it can be good to use as a disk- intensive, production domU. Does anyone know how it compares to say straight IDE partition, IDE + software RAID, or even IDE + software RAID + LVM? While at it, what do you all think is the best domU FS setup? S _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On 5/23/06, Stephen Yum <steveyum@exactimage.com> wrote:> > I''m curious about this method. It seems very convenient, jailtime.org > has a bunch you can simply download and run. But how are they in > terms of performance? Can''t imagine it can be good to use as a disk- > intensive, production domU. > > Does anyone know how it compares to say straight IDE partition, IDE + > software RAID, or even IDE + software RAID + LVM? > > While at it, what do you all think is the best domU FS setup? > > SNewbie question. Can''t you create a partition bigger than the filesystems at jail.org, then use dd to put them on the raw partition? ie. download the filesystem from jail.org as the file orig_file_from_jail.org dd if=orig_file_from_jail.org of=/dev/hda6 bs=4k Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Greg, Why don''t you just mount it and copy the stuff over to a physical/ logical volume? That''s what I did. For example, for download the Debian 3.1 image file from jailtime, and do the following from your dom0: # mount -o loop debian.3-1.img /mnt # mkdir -p /osTemplates/debian31_base # cp -ax /mnt/* /osTemplates/debian31_base Make a swap file, create a config file, and away you go! S On May 23, 2006, at 1:44 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:> On 5/23/06, Stephen Yum <steveyum@exactimage.com> wrote: > I''m curious about this method. It seems very convenient, jailtime.org > has a bunch you can simply download and run. But how are they in > terms of performance? Can''t imagine it can be good to use as a disk- > intensive, production domU. > > Does anyone know how it compares to say straight IDE partition, IDE + > software RAID, or even IDE + software RAID + LVM? > > While at it, what do you all think is the best domU FS setup? > > S > > Newbie question. > > Can''t you create a partition bigger than the filesystems at > jail.org, then use dd to put them on the raw partition? > > ie. > download the filesystem from jail.org as the file > orig_file_from_jail.org > dd if=orig_file_from_jail.org of=/dev/hda6 bs=4k > > Greg > -- > Greg Freemyer > The Norcross Group > Forensics for the 21st Century > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On 5/23/06, Stephen Yum <steveyum@exactimage.com> wrote:> > Greg, > > Why don''t you just mount it and copy the stuff over to a physical/logical > volume? That''s what I did. For example, for download the Debian 3.1 image > file from jailtime, and do the following from your dom0: > > # mount -o loop debian.3-1.img /mnt > # mkdir -p /osTemplates/debian31_base > # cp -ax /mnt/* /osTemplates/debian31_base > > Make a swap file, create a config file, and away you go! > > S > > That''s propably because of what I do for a living (Computer Forensics).We work with filesystem images all the time, but in general we try to maintain the entire filesystem, even the unallocated pages, they may contain evidence from previously deleted files. Using dd (or its equivalent) is the only to do that. In this case, my method was overkill because the filesystem files from jail.org aren''t evidence. Thus your approach above should be fine. FYI: If the jail is using mkfs options to tune the filesystem when they tune their systems then the cp process you use will not maintain them. Using dd like I proposed should. I don''t know if the jail is doing any mkfs tuning or not. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users