working with xen

michaewlewis · 02-21-2007, 10:49 AM

How can I use an existing installation of xp with xen? Is it possible, or do I have to install it new onto a xen image?
Could someone link me to a good tutorial on xen? or perhaps xen is outdated?

thanks

mjmwired · 02-23-2007, 06:21 PM

I do not think this is possible.
Furthermore I beleive you need a newer CPU (Intel VT or AMD-V) to support Windows in XEN.

michaewlewis · 02-26-2007, 01:46 PM

okay. How can I install/run a virtual installation of windows on my suse 10.1 box?
I have a good enough computer to do it. I'm just not sure how to do it.

mjmwired · 02-26-2007, 03:25 PM

For the *best* experience download VMware Server, its free to download but requires registration to use.
Or try QEMU, but make sure you get the kernel accelerator module.

Qemu is simpler, but is all console based and it is 100% open source. Vmware is rather large, takes quite a few steps but has a graphical UI and is feature rich.

Some notes I wrote on the above virtualization and emulation choices