I am running the latest unstable XEN on a 16X Intel XEON machine with HT enabled. I installed W2K3 (x86 version) quite easily but I am having the hardest time getting more than a 1X to work. I change the vcpus in the config file to 4 or 8, but I can never get Windows VM to come up. I''ve tried installing with 4 vcpus. I tried installing with 4 vcpus and manually selecting the MPS HAL and another time the ACPI HAL. I''ve tried changing the HAL and kernel selections with boot.ini. I either get VM just stopping, or sometimes blue screening, sometimes it just stalls during the boot. I''ve tried different settings for the APIC and ACPI in the config file. Any suggestion greatly appreciated. (I am about to try W2K3 x64 version.) thx _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
I''m having similar trouble. Does anyone have a multi processor windows guest, and how did they do it? seph "Nowatzki, Thomas L" <Thomas.Nowatzki@UNISYS.com> writes:> I am running the latest unstable XEN on a 16X Intel XEON machine with HT > enabled. I installed W2K3 (x86 version) quite easily but > I am having the hardest time getting more than a 1X to work. I change > the vcpus in the config file to 4 or 8, but I can never get > Windows VM to come up. > > I''ve tried installing with 4 vcpus. I tried installing with 4 vcpus and > manually selecting the MPS HAL and another time the ACPI HAL. > I''ve tried changing the HAL and kernel selections with boot.ini. I > either get VM just stopping, or sometimes blue screening, sometimes it > just stalls > during the boot. I''ve tried different settings for the APIC and ACPI in > the config file. > > Any suggestion greatly appreciated. (I am about to try W2K3 x64 > version.) > > thx > _______________________________________________ > 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
Thorolf Godawa
2006-Nov-09 09:50 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] Re: Windows Multi-Processor under XEN??
Hi, > Does anyone have a multi processor windows > guest, and how did they do it? last time I used it, it was on SLES 10 Beta with (I think) Xen 3.0.1 in Februray 2006. There was nothing special I just set the no of CPUs in the config file and installed W2k3 Server EE, the two processors where detected out of the box! A part of the old "w2k3.vmx": --------------------------------------------- # Kernel image file. kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/vmxloader" # The domain build function. VMX domain uses ''vmx''. builder=''vmx'' # Initial memory allocation (in megabytes) for the new domain. memory = 512 # A name for your domain. All domains must have different names. name = "w2k3.vmx" # Which CPU to start domain on? #cpu = '''' # leave to Xen to pick cpu = 2 vcpus=2 --------------------------------------------- -- Chau y hasta luego, Thorolf _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users