RE: [Xen-users] help: ports of windows

["Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>]

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> Phinux Chang
> Sent: 22 March 2006 06:47
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> Subject: [Xen-users] help: ports of windows
> 
> hi, all
> 
>    I want to use windows xp in xen vitual machine, but I find 
> nothing about that except the name of Intel Virtualization Technology.
> 
>    Is there anyone knows the howto, please help me, thank 
> you:) I will apreciate it, thanks very much!

Well, the guys at XenSource have done it. The "Howto" is both rather
trivial and very complicated:
1. Get source code for Windows.
2. Apply suitable modifications to source code (probably available from
XenSource if you have a documentable Windows source license). Although I
think patches may not be up to date with Xen 3.0.x
3. Go run it. 

The difficult part of this is getting a source license from Microsoft -
they do not come with your breakfast cereals as a freebie ;-). More like
you have to pay millions of dollars and sign away the rest of your life
to get it... 

Without source license to Windows, you haven't got a chance, except for
getting a processor that supports full virtualization - or using another
virtualization technology which doesn't rely on Xen and modifications to
the source code of the OS. There are several of those available.

--
Mats
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