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Old 12-20-2006, 09:22 AM   #1
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Looking for Genious...who knows A-Z to install Guest OS on top of FC6(including XEN)


Is there any one who has performed Guest OS installation over Fedora Core 6 including XEN.
Guest OS like Windows xp, windows 2003, any linux version.
If there is someone, please could you provide me with the documentation to install guest OS.
Well i have tried a lot now and i am run out of ideas. I cant think any more, i solved dozen of errors but this error is annowing me toooo much.
After i start the installation of windows 2003 as a guest on top of xen using virtual machine manager through DVD. Installation starts and after setup completes virtual machine dissapear and if then i go to file and try to open that OS, i get error message "Error restoring domain /root/abc Is the domain already running?"
Now, i have forceably tried to open the Virtual machine using command xm create /etc/xen/<domain-name>. It starts the VM but blank screen appears in 4 sec time and it remain like that forever. So which results in shuttiong it down.

I have installed XEN along with installation of FC6, not after fc6 installation. I dont think that makes any difference as long as i get XEN working.

So please help me out if you have come accross this and have successfully installed different guest OS over FC6 (XEN).
i DONT CARE IF THE HOST SYSTEM IS OTHER THAN FC6. i prefered fc6 because it include XEN software as i dont have interent for that system so i cant really have XEN after installing host system.

Looking forward for some positive responce....

Thanks in advance
 
Old 12-20-2006, 11:02 AM   #2
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Ahhhh...just tried once again with SuSE installation over XEN and it worked. Though the error was same at the beginning after installation got completed the virtual machine got dissapeared and i was not able to open it using VMM. So i tried my luck once again by using command line to switch it ON n it showed me the same blank screen and i decided to give up and after relaxinf for 10-15 minutes what i see is the configuration setup page....and it finally got worked.....Now i would be trying windows xp and 2003 tommorow, i hope that works too. Any one faced the same problem ? Well but i still doubt that windows might not work...lets c any way
 
Old 12-21-2006, 06:58 AM   #3
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No guys, windows os isn't working on top of fully virtualized system. Like i mentioned above. after setup completes, when all files are transfered to the destination path, the guest os goes on reboot and never returns back.
Using command xm create /etc/xen/<domain name> starts the VM again but its a blank screen this time. Well and when i try to open the file where all the files are tansfered, i get message could not open. Its same with SuSE whereas its working fine now.
This time i am looking for some positive replies guys...
Any help would be greatly appreciated...
Thanks in advance
 
Old 12-21-2006, 09:06 AM   #4
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Until now, I think windows guest OS needs to be modified to run under Xen.
And that's not allowed; so I'm not sure what you are trying to do is impossible.
Any information/website of people that managed to do it? Officially?
 
Old 12-21-2006, 09:13 AM   #5
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Or do you have these new processors that have the VT extension for Hardware virtualization?

Core Duo, Core 2 Duo ,Turion x2

Last edited by nx5000; 12-21-2006 at 09:15 AM.
 
Old 12-21-2006, 09:30 AM   #6
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I guess you are right, thats what i got to know after lot of research and RedHat's documentation that it doesnt support windows at the moment and same with SuSE.Its release is due by the end of march .
But where i get confused is how come there are loads of documentation over the net to install windows over XEN...
I have started with a new post i.e. research....to know how many are really having windows on top of XEN.
Lets see the responce....And yeh you mentioned about these processors, yeh i have intel VT PRO which is fully virtualized. i dont know about core duo and all.
Thanks for your reply
 
  


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