Re: [Xen-users] RE: Windows 2003 HVM Performance

[Edward Ing <inge@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You are doing "research", by which is implied it seems that you are
doing cursory reading.
Anyways. It works with Intel VT and I expect it to with most.

Got mine going with this official looking documention that is not on the
wiki.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/readmes/user/user.html


The one on Xensource does not have Appendix A.




On Thu, 2006-21-12 at 07:49 -0800, anant wrote:
> So if you are one of those guys who has successfully installed windows XP on
> top of xen then do explain what hardware and software combination you have
> used in it. But reply that on my thread i.e. research.
> And about sending same message 3 times...yeh that was because of internet
> problem.i am trying to delete it but not working...you asked why so i am
> telling you ...because even i dont like sending same message again n again 
> 
> Petersson, Mats wrote:
> > 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> >> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of anant
> >> Sent: 21 December 2006 15:15
> >> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> 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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> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> View this message in context: 
> >> http://www.nabble.com/Windows-2003-HVM-Performance-tf2779415.h
> >> tml#a8009463
> >> Sent from the Xen - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
> >> 
> >> 
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