Anybody around who can tell me if there is a difference between XP on iron and a virtualized XP? Point is that I installed XP, applied the service packs, and tried to install Silverlight. On the iron machine no problem, on the virtualized, I got a complaint that the platform wasn''t suitable. How can they tell the difference? Thought that it was invisible! Hans ______________________________________________________________________ Dit bericht kan informatie bevatten die niet voor u is bestemd. Indien u niet de geadresseerde bent of dit bericht abusievelijk aan u is toegezonden, wordt u verzocht dat aan de afzender te melden en het bericht te verwijderen. De Staat aanvaardt geen aansprakelijkheid voor schade, van welke aard ook, die verband houdt met risico''s verbonden aan het elektronisch verzenden van berichten. This message may contain information that is not intended for you. If you are not the addressee or if this message was sent to you by mistake, you are requested to inform the sender and delete the message. The State accepts no liability for damage of any kind resulting from the risks inherent in the electronic transmission of messages.
> > Anybody around who can tell me if there is a difference between XP on iron > and a virtualized XP? > > Point is that I installed XP, applied the service packs, and tried to install > Silverlight. > On the iron machine no problem, on the virtualized, I got a complaint that the > platform wasn''t suitable. > > How can they tell the difference? Thought that it was invisible! >Silverlight requires some form of MMX instructions present in the cpu. Have you modified any cpuid= to report a processor that is too old? I encountered this when testing migration between an AMD and an Intel processor... the "lowest common featureset" between the two processors is too low to support the required MMX instructions for silverlight. James
<J.Witvliet@mindef.nl>
2012-Apr-05 09:45 UTC
Re: diff between XP on iron and a fully virt-XP
Eh, no. I wasn''t aware that Silverlight did have such requirements. (And didn''t realize that my ancient T43 laptop had those extensions, as S.L. installed there without a hitch) But I got a new HP-laptop with an I7-cpu. And installed OpenSUSE_12.1 with all xen-options/packages enabled. Only problem I encountered sofar, was the nvidia-nouveau saga, but as Microsoft requires full virtualization, I assumed that would not be an issue.... Hans -----Original Message----- From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xen.org [mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xen.org] On Behalf Of James Harper Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 1:34 AM To: Witvliet, J, CDC/IV/DCOPS/I&S/HIN; xen-users@lists.xensource.com Subject: Re: [Xen-users] diff between XP on iron and a fully virt-XP> > Anybody around who can tell me if there is a difference between XP on iron > and a virtualized XP? > > Point is that I installed XP, applied the service packs, and tried to install > Silverlight. > On the iron machine no problem, on the virtualized, I got a complaint that the > platform wasn''t suitable. > > How can they tell the difference? Thought that it was invisible! >Silverlight requires some form of MMX instructions present in the cpu. Have you modified any cpuid= to report a processor that is too old? I encountered this when testing migration between an AMD and an Intel processor... the "lowest common featureset" between the two processors is too low to support the required MMX instructions for silverlight. James _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-users ______________________________________________________________________ Dit bericht kan informatie bevatten die niet voor u is bestemd. Indien u niet de geadresseerde bent of dit bericht abusievelijk aan u is toegezonden, wordt u verzocht dat aan de afzender te melden en het bericht te verwijderen. De Staat aanvaardt geen aansprakelijkheid voor schade, van welke aard ook, die verband houdt met risico''s verbonden aan het elektronisch verzenden van berichten. This message may contain information that is not intended for you. If you are not the addressee or if this message was sent to you by mistake, you are requested to inform the sender and delete the message. The State accepts no liability for damage of any kind resulting from the risks inherent in the electronic transmission of messages.