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

[Jens Krause <jens.krause@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ken,

thanks for the reply, I want to try that. How did you copy
the Windows from disk to file? Did you make a raw copy
using 'dd' or did you copy the files using 'cp' on the loop-mounted
file system?

Thanks

Jens


On 03/22/2012 03:05 PM, Ken Cobler wrote:
> 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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