Re: [Xen-users] Newbie to XEN

[Hilton Day <xlot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

You don't specify what Athlon you have - but I get the impression its a 
32-bit Athlon XP?
I'm afraid the only AMD cpus that support a fully-virtualized guest OS 
are the latest ones based on the AM2 socket.
This means that you will not be able to run Windows XP as a guest, as 
there is no para-virtualized, modified-kernel version of Windows XP to 
support running within the Xen environment.
The only way unmodified operating systems can be installed is as 
fully-virtualised hosts, making use of the hardware virtualization 
support in the AM2 AMD's, and Intel Core 2 Duo's and some of the Pentium 
D series.
Rgds,

Hilton.

Lesley wrote:
> Hello
>
> I need to use a virtual machine with SUSE 10.0 as the host and Windows 
> XP Pro as the guest.
> There is a XEN button in YAST2 bu the error I get from that states I 
> must have a XEN kernel installed.
> I have had nothing but problems when trying even to simply recompile 
> the existing kernel in SuSE 8.2 and 7.3.  I gave up on that idea when 
> I moved to 10.0.
> I cannot afford to be in the situation where I have no useful kernel 
> and no workstation.  As a freelancer I simply do not have that comfort 
> zone and I currently do not have 48 hour 20 day weeks to resolve the 
> issues that might arise as well as getting any paid work done.  I 
> basically need something that works and is stable and robust.
> I'm only using a 32 bit Athlon machine so I will have no 64 bit 
> funnies going on.  I have plenty of disk space for the installs 
> required and expect to be able to dual boot from SuSE 10 and SuSE 10.1 
> within a day.
> If I were to make a dual boot SuSE 10.0/10.1 in the first instance, 
> what issues do I have to cope with to install a XEN machine with 10.1 
> as the  host OS?  Is Xen stable on SUSE 10.1 with Windows XP Pro as a 
> guest OS or am I going to get a total inability to run Windows just 
> when I don't need it i.e. is there anybody out there with experience 
> of the Xen 3.x virtual machine with SuSE 10.1 as Dom0 and Windows as 
> domN?
> Have there been any problems using the guest OS to install software - 
> e.g. AutoCAD - within the guest domain?  What's the graphics 
> capability like?
> I simply don't have the time to get this up and running to then find 
> out it's unstable and the graphics just doesn't port through so I 
> sincerely apologise if some of these questions are answered in the FAQ 
> but I would like to hear what users on SuSE 10.x with Windows XP Pro 
> as domN (N>0) have to say of their experiences.
> Regards
>
> Lesley
>
>
>
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