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[Xen-users] can Xen coexist/cooperate with a windows/linux dual-boot sys

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Subject: [Xen-users] can Xen coexist/cooperate with a windows/linux dual-boot system?
From: richard heade <richard.heade@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 06:52:38 -0800
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I have a dual-boot setup, using grub, that I'm attempting to convert to
a dual-boot plus xen setup. I'm running openSuSE 11.2 with the
2.6.31.5-0.1-xen kernel and Xen 3.4.1.  The hard drive is partitioned as:
sda1 - xp (ntfs)
sda2 - extended partition
sda5 - /windows/D (fat32)
sda6 - swap
sda7 - / (ext4)
sda8 - /home (ext4)

I've configured the windows xp vm as:
name="windowsxp"
uuid="b3a2c424-7df7-94f6-79a8-c641e412f68d"
memory=512
maxmem=512
vcpus=2
on_poweroff="destroy"
on_reboot="restart"
on_crash="destroy"
localtime=1
keymap="en-us"

builder="hvm"
extid=0
device_model="/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm"
kernel="/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
boot="c"
disk=[ 'phy:/dev/sda1,hda1,w', ]
vif=[ 'bridge=br0,model=rtl8139', ]

stdvga=0
vnc=1
vncunused=1
apic=1
acpi=1
pae=1

usb=1
usbdevice='tablet'

serial="pty"

When I attempt to run the windows xp vm the console shows "booting from
hard disk...", the cpu usage goes to 100%, and that's as far as it gets.
(I've tried multiple different "disk=..." combinations, this is just the
latest, but I get the same results from all of them.)

Any ideas on how I might fix this? (it would seem that however xen tries
to boot windows xp, it's not as effective as grub's chainloader.)


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