Re: [Xen-users] help: ports of windows

[Phinux Chang <phinuxchang@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Petersson

     Thank you firstly.
 
     are you kidding, windows source, my god:)

     The cpu of my notebook is Pentium M, and it does't support Intel Virtualization Technology.

     Is there a compromised method? why not patch windows just like windows patch from the Microsoft official? or anybody who has the source code of windows sends me a copy:)
Petersson, Mats 写道:

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Phinux Chang
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Subject: [Xen-users] help: ports of windows

hi, all

   I want to use windows xp in xen vitual machine, but I find 
nothing about that except the name of Intel Virtualization Technology.

   Is there anyone knows the howto, please help me, thank 
you:) I will apreciate it, thanks very much!
    

Well, the guys at XenSource have done it. The "Howto" is both rather
trivial and very complicated:
1. Get source code for Windows.
2. Apply suitable modifications to source code (probably available from
XenSource if you have a documentable Windows source license). Although I
think patches may not be up to date with Xen 3.0.x
3. Go run it. 

The difficult part of this is getting a source license from Microsoft -
they do not come with your breakfast cereals as a freebie ;-). More like
you have to pay millions of dollars and sign away the rest of your life
to get it... 

Without source license to Windows, you haven't got a chance, except for
getting a processor that supports full virtualization - or using another
virtualization technology which doesn't rely on Xen and modifications to
the source code of the OS. There are several of those available.

--
Mats
  

           
                                                              
         
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