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RE: [Xen-users] Windows on Xen+VT

How I managed to get VMX up and running:

1) Perform a Xen 3.0 source build with libvncserver installed
2) Modify the VMX config file and 'xm create -f vmx.img'
3) After confirmation of domain creation, 'netstat -nat' to look for the
vnc server (on port 590X)... mine was located at ip 0.0.0.0:5901
4) vncviewer 0.0.0.0:5901

And the VNC window opens up displaying the VMX domain in all its wonderful
glory:-)

My config file was just the vmx example with the image file changed.

John

Quoting "Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh"
John,

I have been trying to get VNC to work with VMX domains. I have the
libvnc library installed. I have been able to get it working only get
SDL. Could you please tell me what steps you followed? It would also be
helpful if you could get me a copy of your Windows VMX domain's xm
config file.

Thanks,
Aravindh

-----Original Message-----
From: John Wilson [mailto:j.wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 3:55 PM
To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Xen-users] Windows on Xen+VT

To all you guys who have managed to get Windows up on Xen...

Its early days for me as I only figured out how to get it up and
running
through vnc today, but basically it runs rather slowly, and I wonder
if
anyone has any experience on 'best practices' and such when creating
WinXP
virtual machines.

I'm currently using an image that boots to windows setup I made using
QEMU,
and it boots fine, tells me its resuming setup, then blue screens with
a
reference to an infinite loop being detected in the framebuf driver.
(Although I think it might just be detecting extreme slowness as this
infinite loop).

1) So how to speed it up/why would it be going so slowly? (my linux
VMX
machines don't exactly burn rubber either)
2) Should I fully install windows onto the image with QEMU first?
3) Should the video output be configured for full screen, as opposed
to
windowed as it is currently?
4)Is there any possibility at all that a VMX domain (especially
windows)
could be run on a non-VT machine? (Beacause its a very new
pre-production
bios and platform, and even though it's set up in the bios for VT, I
don't
really trust it and it seems a little suspiciously slow... I suppose I
could test this in the lab really:-)
5) Anything else I should know?


John






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