Xen users - Feb 2009 - xen Paravirtualization for WinXP or WinVista on AMD Phenom x4

It is not clear to me whether Windows is supported  under xen at this 
point.

I have built a new machine with an AMD Phenom x4 and 8GB RAM, lots of 
disk (but FakeRAID, another story), etc., etc.  Should be an absolute 
fire-eater, and able to support multiple concurrent Linux instance for 
development.  However, some of the Apps I have to useneed to run under 
Windows XP+.

According to some of the docs, xen will support some xen-ized form of 
Windoze under 3.3.1, but it is not clear where I can find the "slightly 
modified" form of WinVista or XP that will run happily in a DomU.

Any clues?

David Stockwell



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Modified windows was only required in the old days before full
virtualization. Here is an example config for full virtualization:
http://en.opensuse.org/Xen_Full_Virtualization_Example

Keith Coleman

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:25 PM, David Stockwell
<dstockwell@frequency-one.com> wrote:
> It is not clear to me whether Windows is supported  under xen at this
point.
>
> I have built a new machine with an AMD Phenom x4 and 8GB RAM, lots of disk
> (but FakeRAID, another story), etc., etc.  Should be an absolute
fire-eater,
> and able to support multiple concurrent Linux instance for development.
>  However, some of the Apps I have to useneed to run under Windows XP+.
>
> According to some of the docs, xen will support some xen-ized form of
> Windoze under 3.3.1, but it is not clear where I can find the
"slightly
> modified" form of WinVista or XP that will run happily in a DomU.
>
> Any clues?
>
> David Stockwell
>
>
>
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Keith...

Thank you for your rapid reponse.  It almost looks too easy...not 
Linux-ey at all.  I will dive in after the weekend.

FWIW, I am already running VMWare Workstation on my laptop, so will be 
interested in comparing the two environments WRT performance, usability, 
etc.

Best,
David

----- Original Message ----- 

Modified windows was only required in the old days before full
virtualization. Here is an example config for full virtualization:
http://en.opensuse.org/Xen_Full_Virtualization_Example

Keith Coleman

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:25 PM, David Stockwell
<dstockwell@frequency-one.com> wrote:
> It is not clear to me whether Windows is supported under xen at this 
> point.
>
> I have built a new machine with an AMD Phenom x4 and 8GB RAM, lots of 
> disk
> (but FakeRAID, another story), etc., etc. Should be an absolute 
> fire-eater,
> and able to support multiple concurrent Linux instance for 
> development.
> However, some of the Apps I have to useneed to run under Windows XP+.
>
> According to some of the docs, xen will support some xen-ized form of
> Windoze under 3.3.1, but it is not clear where I can find the 
> "slightly
> modified" form of WinVista or XP that will run happily in a DomU.
>
> Any clues?
>
> David Stockwell
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Xen-users mailing list
> Xen-users@lists.xensource.com
> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> 

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Quoting "David Stockwell" <dstockwell@frequency-one.com>:
> It is not clear to me whether Windows is supported  under xen at this
point.
>
> I have built a new machine with an AMD Phenom x4 and 8GB RAM, lots  
> of disk (but FakeRAID, another story), etc., etc.  Should be an  
> absolute fire-eater, and able to support multiple concurrent Linux  
> instance for development.  However, some of the Apps I have to  
> useneed to run under Windows XP+.
>
> According to some of the docs, xen will support some xen-ized form  
> of Windoze under 3.3.1, but it is not clear where I can find the  
> "slightly modified" form of WinVista or XP that will run happily
in
> a DomU.
>
> Any clues?
>
> David Stockwell
David,

I have the exact same proc and amount of RAM as you and am running a  
HVM WinXP instance with no problem. Also running a Solaris 10 install  
and multiple linux instances. I was using the stock xen kernel for  
CentOS 5.2 to run these until I upgraded to Xen 3.3.1. I have a HVM  
install of XP and Win2k3 running on an intel running xen 3.0-unstable  
as well.

Jon


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