RE: [Xen-users] Windows 2003 HVM Performance

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

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> Sent: 21 December 2006 15:15
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> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Windows 2003 HVM Performance
> 
> 
> As far as i got to know is at the moment SuSE or any RedHat 
> version doesnt
> support Windows. And by somewhere in march 2007, the release 
> is due which
> supports that. But even i am not sure about this as i got to 
> know about it
> through some SuSE documentation and i still dont believe it, 
> so i am doing a
> bit research on this and do let me know if you get any 
> success in installing
> Windows on top of XEN...I have tried a lot to install it over 
> Fedora Core 6
> but result was null....
> Thanks

Why do you send the same message three times?

Also, there's PLENTY of people on this mailing list who have
successfully got Windows working on various types of hardware and
software combinations. One of those is myself. 

Just because you can't figure out how to do this, doesn't mean that it
doesn't work. 

--
Mats
> 
> lists-81 wrote:
> > 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I have recently been trying to install a windows 2003 
> server on a Xen Dom0
> > with
> > an AMD X2 CPU.  I've not actually been able to finish the 
> installation due
> > to
> > the Dom0 host crashing whilst the Windows installation is 
> "registering
> > components".  Hopefully the latest version of OpenSUSE (which I'm
> > downloading
> > at the moment) will fix that? :-)
> > 
> > During the installation I noticed that the section of the 
> install that
> > copied
> > files to the harddisc didn't execute very fast which 
> prompted me to google
> > for
> > xen HVM harddisc performance figures.  I read some 
> references to a windows
> > paravirtualised harddisc driver that would improve 
> performance.  Does
> > anyone
> > know whether paravirtualised drivers are in development?  I 
> also read that
> > network performance is near native so would it make sense to install
> > windows on
> > a partition on the Dom0 and then create a D drive on the 
> windows machine
> > using
> > an iSCSI initiator?  This would mean that the domU would be 
> relying on
> > it's
> > near native network performance for harddisc accesses.  Has 
> anyone tried
> > this?
> > 
> > I'd be interested to hear any advice on settings/tweaks to 
> improve windows
> > HVM
> > performance.
> > 
> > Many thanks in advance,
> > 
> > Steve.
> > 
> > 
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