Re: [Xen-users] cd-rom access, hvm boot, unstable download from 9-7-2006

[Jason <fearthepenguin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

maybe Im reading too much into your post, but you install XP in VMWare 
and then copy it into a xen VM and run it without a VT enabled CPU?
Alan Murrell wrote:
> On Monday 11 September 2006 10:46, Yongkang wrote:
>   
> > The new cdrom usage should like:
> >
> > disk = [ 'file:/var/images/install.img,hda,w',
> > 'file:/root/installimages/winxpsp2.iso,hdc:cdrom,r' ]
> >     
> Possibly a stupid question, but if one is not using  a VT-enabled CPU (Intel's 
> VT chip or AMD's Pacifica chip), would the above work?  (this would be for 
> Xen 3.0+, presumably...?)
> I've always thought it a weakness of Xen that you could not install a DomU 
> from CD-ROM (or ISO image, as above).
> My machine I am using at home is not a VT-enabled one, so being able to 
> install a guest domain from an ISO would save a few steps in my current 
> process (install to my desktop in VMware --> loopback-mount the disk image on 
> Dom0 --> rsync the filesystem created in VMware to the mounted disk image)
> Thanks.
>
> -Alan
>
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