Hello all,

So I thought that I would finally play with xen. I don't have a clue what to do now. I have installed the xen kernel through YaST and selected the xen kernel to load. I'm now sitting in KDE and I wanted to put my windows disk in and install it, (I heard that I could do this right?). So how do I install a new operating system without going through Bios and putting in the CD/DVD?

Thanks,

Paul

If I am not mistaken, after installing a Xen-enabled kernel, you now need to install Xen itself.

When downloading Xen from their website, I assume there are some install instructions. With any virtualization scheme, It think you will wind up creating a virtual partition which an installer will see as a valid place to put itself. In other words, once Xen is installed, then you would boot from the Windows install CD, and select the Xen partition for the install.

I'm speculating a lot here---the truth will be in the Xen instructions....

I also just installed CentOS5 and enabled the Virtualization (Xen). I am also sitting here wondering how to get Windows XP on it. I can't seem to find a solid and well written how-to on Xen. Just a lot of random articles and blogs on Xen. Even the official CentOS documentation on Xen is just an overview and nothing more. If someone wrote a good how-to article, they would get tons of $$$ advertising hits *hint hint*!

Anyway, if someone finds a good how-to on creating a virtual disk and putting Windows XP on it, please share! I've got 2xQuad core Xeon processors waiting to be used and pushed to its limits!

I found a GUI to set up and manage the VM's in CentOS5. It is hidden under Applications->System Tools. From there, you can configure a VM. I was able to install Windows XP with no problems. Network was bridged and working and the performance was fine. I was running the VM on a 2xQuad Core Xeon 5310 CPU's with 8GB of RAM. Unfortunately Xen eats up about 4GB alone! Pretty hefty, but I'll get some more RAM.