While it may be possible to do, I would
strongly recommend against it. The thing is that the virtualized hardware is
completely different from what the actual hardware in your system is. Lets say you
load Windows on your machine baremetal, it sees a nice new Intel chipset, GeForce
video card, and a SATA hard drive. Then when you try to boot that partition
with Xen, it suddenly being thrown a completely different set of hardware. It
now is seeing a Cirrus Logic video card, some older generic chipset, and an IDE
hard drive. This will most likely cause your system to blue screen, or worst
case you will have some major data loss.
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From:
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On Behalf Of Ishaaq Chandy
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006
9:17 AM
To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Xen-users] Re: dual boot
windows
Umm,
any clues on this one?
Ishaaq
On 10/08/06, Ishaaq Chandy <ishaaq@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi guys,
I'm new to Xen - in fact I haven't installed it yet - wanted to find out a bit
more before I test the waters.
Here's what I want to do:
1. I'm getting a new Intel Core duo laptop within a couple of days. I believe
the core duo chips have Vanderpool technology so it shouldn't be a problem
getting Xen to run windows unmodified - is this correct?
2. I need to install WIndows normally on the hard-drive. In fact, it comes
pre-installed by the manufacturer, but I don't mind blowing it away and
reinstalling it from scratch if I need to. I plan to run this installation
normally at times when I need to run hardware intensive software - aka 3D games
:)
3. I plan to dual boot to a linux installation (Ubuntu??). This installation
will have Xen installed in it. From here I hope to be able to load up the
Windows installation mentioned in point 2 above when I need to. Is this
possible? Or do I need to (I am hoping to avoid this) install a second Windows
installation (and get the required licenses) from within Xen?
Thanks,
