Hi, Has anyone tried to install Vista B2 on VT machine? Dose Xen 3.0.2 support Vista? Thanks! _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
It''s not on the current list of AMD testing images - we''re mostly looking at already released OS''s. As to what Intel does, I obviously can''t comment - although I would expect that they have a similar philosophy. In theory, there''s little reason why it should be a problem running Vista, but practice may show a difference. Of course, VT has an further disadvantage of not supporting Real-mode execution (they don''t have Paged Real-mode, which the AMD SVM processor has, which allows us to fake the processor/OS to believe it''s running in real-mode at address 0..1M, whilst in actual fact the page-table maintained by the hypervisor is mapping this (virtual) address range to somewhere else in physical memory - this is a great help to avoid having to emulate strange variants of instructions that may appear in the boot-loader and emulating things like "big real-mode"). -- Mats ________________________________ From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com [mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Haw-Yuan Yang Sent: 21 June 2006 01:10 To: xen-users@lists.xensource.com Subject: [Xen-users] Vista B2 Hi, Has anyone tried to install Vista B2 on VT machine? Dose Xen 3.0.2 support Vista? Thanks! _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hi, I tried Vista B2 in XEN 3.0.2 packaged in SUSE 10.1. Unfortunately, I coundn''t boot. It was Vista B2 Japanese. I downloaded it and burnt to DVD by myself. I confirmed the DVD itself booted in the same machine. And the XP in XEN booted in the same SUSE10.1-XEN. The result was: The VM window appeared, virtual BIOS was displayed and freezed after the message "Booting CD-ROM....." I''m now researching on other information. Noniko _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> -----Original Message----- > From: Noniko [mailto:hitumabushi@jcom.home.ne.jp] > Sent: 23 June 2006 13:35 > To: Petersson, Mats > Cc: Haw-Yuan Yang; xen-users@lists.xensource.com > Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Vista B2 > > Hi, > > I tried Vista B2 in XEN 3.0.2 packaged in SUSE 10.1. > Unfortunately, I coundn''t boot. > It was Vista B2 Japanese. I downloaded it and burnt to DVD by myself. > I confirmed the DVD itself booted in the same machine. > And the XP in XEN booted in the same SUSE10.1-XEN. > The result was: The VM window appeared, virtual BIOS was > displayed and > freezed after the message "Booting CD-ROM....." > I''m now researching on other information.You may want to try the latest version of Unstable, as there''s been a few fixes since SuSE 10.1, some of which are only in unstable. Of course, since it''s not clear what the cause of the problem is, it may not help... But if you want to actually get the problem fixed, it''s probably going to happen in unstable quite a long time before it reaches stable/testing. -- Mats> > Noniko > >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Friday 23 June 2006 13:44, Petersson, Mats wrote:> > -----Original Message----- > > From: Noniko [mailto:hitumabushi@jcom.home.ne.jp] > > Sent: 23 June 2006 13:35 > > To: Petersson, Mats > > Cc: Haw-Yuan Yang; xen-users@lists.xensource.com > > Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Vista B2 > > > > Hi, > > > > I tried Vista B2 in XEN 3.0.2 packaged in SUSE 10.1. > > Unfortunately, I coundn''t boot. > > It was Vista B2 Japanese. I downloaded it and burnt to DVD by myself. > > I confirmed the DVD itself booted in the same machine. > > And the XP in XEN booted in the same SUSE10.1-XEN. > > The result was: The VM window appeared, virtual BIOS was > > displayed and > > freezed after the message "Booting CD-ROM....." > > I''m now researching on other information. > > You may want to try the latest version of Unstable, as there''s been a > few fixes since SuSE 10.1, some of which are only in unstable. Of > course, since it''s not clear what the cause of the problem is, it may > not help... But if you want to actually get the problem fixed, it''s > probably going to happen in unstable quite a long time before it reaches > stable/testing. >You might also want to try here for the latest XEN releases: http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?xenpreview These packages are built for SLES 10, however you should be able to install them on SUSE 10.1 as well. I had the SDL window freeze on booting from CD... on older versions when testing. Newer versions seem to be better, and I also found with the older versions that changing to install from ISO rather than physical device would work (once). Then subsequent attempts would freeze again, and I could change back to physical device and it would boot... weird I know. As I said, the XEN modules from forge.novell.com are a lot better. As has also been posted to this list, setting the Dom0 memory low also helped stability of the Windows DomUs. Jon _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Mats, Jon, thank you for your helpful messages. I''m planning to test SUSE 10.2 Alpha1. But now the download site seems very busy, I can''t get even a torrent file. I will try later... http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?xenpreview was available. I have been several times before to get the "chengesets", but I hadn''t know the latest version was so new as 6/19. Nicely active! ...The result was, however, the same. That is, SDL window stops after the message "Booting from CD-ROM....". It''s good, it doesn''t freeze, so I could shutdown the incomplete VM. Though this time I tried both Installation DVD and its ISO image, but both ended in the same result. Here is my way to install forge.novell.com product into SUSE 10.1. Xen and dom0 booted successfully. 1)I deleted the old Xen by YaST Software Management. 2)I went to http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?xenpreview and downloaded SLES10-i586-changeset9742c.tar.bz2. 3)From the extracted files, I installed by rpm command: xen-3.0.2_09742-0.1.i586.rpm xen-libs-3.0.2_09742-0.1.i586.rpm xen-tools-3.0.2_09742-0.1.i586.rpm xen-tools-ioemu-3.0.2_09742-0.1.i586.rpm Only kernel-xen-2.6.16.20-0.2.i586.rpm I could not install. It requires "kabi_badness_12" but I did not know how to do. Instead, I had the previous version kernel-xen-2.6.16.18-1.4.i586.rpm and installed it as a workaround. This might be a problem? It''s an interesting challenge. Friends around me are so interested in Xen with VT, but they few of them have VT environment themselves so they are interested in my effort. I will continue this research, keep welcoming any hint.> As has also been posted to this list, setting the Dom0 memory low also helped > stability of the Windows DomUs.Indeed! I added this info in the doc http://en.opensuse.org/Xen_Full_Virtualization_Example Noniko _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users