Re: [Xen-users] Windows 7 as guest on a physikal disk

[Ken Cobler <kcobler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Jens Krause <jens.krause@xxxxxxxx>:

> Hallo,
>
> I have an installed Windows 7 on one partition
> and running Debain Squeeze on the other. Both are 64 bit.
> I want to use Xen to run Windows as virtual guest from
> a physical disk. Once I get this working the Window will
> never be booted directly.
>
>
> When I try to create the virtual machine by
> "xm create -c win.xen"
> it hangs.
>
>
> The versions I use
> Xen 4.0.1-4
> Kernel 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64
I believe with the version of Xen (or maybe the Linux OS), there was  
an issue with physical device blocking.
I had a similar problem with Windows 2008.

I resolved the problem for my situation be simply creating the OS as a  
file, mounting the device under Linux, then using the GPLPV drivers in  
Windows to achieve decent disk throughput for the guest OS.
Ken Cobler




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