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

[Ken Cobler <kcobler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jen,

I used dd to copy the physical device to a linux file.

Ken

> 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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