I have a dual-processor, dual-core Opteron 265 system. It doesn''t have
DDR2, and along with what I can find on the web, I''m pretty sure it
doesn''t have Pacifica, so I can''t do full virtualization.
Right now it
has Longhorn Server Build 5600 (August CTP) x64 on it. But I would like
to try out some virtualization stuff to try different os''s and to
isolate installs of Exchange 2007 Beta, etc. But I can''t get any
virtualization software installed - VMWare Server and VMWare Workstation
abort the installation and rollback just before completion, and
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 (and R2 SP1 Beta 2) both complain that
it can''t find IIS, so it can''t install the management tools.
Okay, I may be crazy, but here''s what I''m thinking:
Microsoft''s partnered with Xen, and the Windows Hypervisor (not due out
for a private beta 1 for a few months yet, and at least a year for the
public release) is supposed to be compatible with Xen (or at the guest
os''s that support running on a Xen Hypervisor are supposed to work on
the Windows Hypervisor). Now the crazy part. I can''t do hmv
virtualization with Xen, because I don''t have Pacifica. But
wouldn''t it
make sense, that since they''re developing the Windows Hypervisor, that
Longhorn will run on top of the Windows Hypervisor, and because of
compatibility, the Xen Hypervisor? And even though the Windows
Hypervisor isn''t due out for a while, they''d want to start
putting that
support into the kernel of the OS before it''s RTMed, because they
don''t
want to be making those kind of changes after it''s been released? So
wouldn''t they be in there now, at the RC1 (Vista RC1, Longhorn August
CTP, both build 5600; it''s been remarkable how much Microsoft is
actually using the same codebase for both os''s with this major
revision,
6.0) stage? So, how would I go about even attempting to get a Xen
Hypervisor based system, with Longhorn running. I can''t use the hmv
style config, because it''s not full virtualization. But how do I
specify the path to the kernel image, or even get Longhorn installed,
for a non-posix style system? I doubt Longhorn''s hypervisor support is
anywhere near being complete/good enough to be a dom-0 vm, but it would
just be cool to get a para-virtualized windows system working.
Maybe I''m assuming too much - has anyone tried anything like this
before?
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