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Re: [Xen-users] vmware inside Xen

To: David Loyall <david.loyall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] vmware inside Xen
From: Christian Horn <chorn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:03:11 +0200
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On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 04:51:54AM -0500, David Loyall wrote:
> 
> I want to run VMWare on my dom0, for those special occasions when I
> need to boot unmodified OSes.
> 
> Well, it's 2007 now..  Is it possible yet?  Before you ask, no, I
> don't have hardware support for virtualization.  (If I did, I wouldn't
> need VMWare.)
No.

> I think that VMWare inside xen would be a very versatile setup...  If
> it can't be done, is there some other setup that might provide similar
> functionality?
qemu without the kqemu-accelerator module should provide something similiar,
but its going to be slow.

Searching this list for more informations should bring up some explanations.


Christian

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