Xen users - Feb 2010 - Using XEN to install Windows XP as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

Dear All

I want to use XEN to install Windows XP as guest on CentOS 5 as host . I tried
as the followings :

#yum install xen virt-manager kernel-xen

#chkconfig xend on

#reboot

Then I booted my CentOS server using XEN kernel . I tried as the followings :

#virt-manager &

But when continuing to create the virtual machine , under Installation Method
menu , I cannot select ''local install media (cdrom)'' and just
the Network install tree is highlighted . So I tried to reach the desired one ,
by issuing as the followings :

#virt-install --paravirt --name WindowsXP --ram 128 --file /vm --location
/mnt/cdrom

But it didn''t get through as well . Can you please let me know how can
I do it correctly ?

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2010/2/6 Hadi Motamedi <motamedi24@hotmail.com>:
> #virt-manager &
> But when continuing to create the virtual machine , under Installation
> Method menu , I cannot select ''local install media
(cdrom)'' and just the
> Network install tree is highlighted . So I tried to reach the desired one ,
> by issuing as the followings :
Windows under Xen needs to run as HVM guest, which needs special CPU
support (Intel VT/AMD-V). You need to select "full virtualization"
(HVM), which offers install from CDROM. If it''s not available, then
most likely your CPU doesn''t support it, or disabled by BIOS.
> #virt-install --paravirt --name WindowsXP --ram 128 --file /vm --location
> /mnt/cdrom
--paravirt creates PV guest, not HVM guest.

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> Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 16:08:50 +0700
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Using XEN to install Windows XP as guest on CentOS
5 as host ?
> From: fajar@fajar.net
> To: motamedi24@hotmail.com
> CC: xen-users@lists.xensource.com
> 
> 2010/2/6 Hadi Motamedi <motamedi24@hotmail.com>:
> > #virt-manager &
> > But when continuing to create the virtual machine , under Installation
> > Method menu , I cannot select ''local install media
(cdrom)'' and just the
> > Network install tree is highlighted . So I tried to reach the desired
one ,
> > by issuing as the followings :
> 
> Windows under Xen needs to run as HVM guest, which needs special CPU
> support (Intel VT/AMD-V). You need to select "full
virtualization"
> (HVM), which offers install from CDROM. If it''s not available,
then
> most likely your CPU doesn''t support it, or disabled by BIOS.
> 
> > #virt-install --paravirt --name WindowsXP --ram 128 --file /vm
--location
> > /mnt/cdrom
> 
> --paravirt creates PV guest, not HVM guest.
> 
> -- 
> Fajar
 

Thanks for your reply . Can you please let me know how can I enable it in my
BIOS ?


 
 		 	   		  
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2010/2/6 Hadi Motamedi <motamedi24@hotmail.com>:
>
> Thanks for your reply . Can you please let me know how can I enable it in
my
> BIOS ?
That should be covered in the manual that came with the system, if
it''s supported.  Unfortunately because you''ve said nothing
about the
hardware you''re using nobody will be able to tell you exactly how.

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