As Mats said, it is possible. If you search the mailing list, you'll see
that many people have done it. In fact, many of these people are helping
others do it, so following these types of threads will tell you how to do
it.
But to answer your original question: With the help of another list user, I
successfully ran WinXP under Fedora Core 5 back in May 2006. I got a hold
of one of the earliest available Intel VT chips (Pentium D 940) inside a
Dell Precision 380, and made sure VT was enabled in the BIOS. I used Xen
3.0.2-2 in HVM (fully virtualized) mode. Here is the post where he told me
how to do it:
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2006-05/msg00661.html
Steve Brueckner, ATC-NY
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From: anant [mailto:ANigam@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 10:39 AM
To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Xen-users] RE: Research -> do participate.....
I dont understand what you are trying to say here.
My simple question was is it possible to have windows XP on top of XEN or
not. If it is possible then i want to know who have successfully
implemented it and how. Have you installed WIndows on top of XEN or you just
say what you read.
These are two different things.
So if you have really implemented it then i would be pleased to know how you
achieved that install . If not then that documentation is probably right
which says its release is due in coming year by march.
Thanks for your reply anyway
Petersson, Mats wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of anant
>> Sent: 21 December 2006 15:07
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>> Subject: [Xen-users] Research -> do participate.....
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>>
>> Hi all,
>> This is simple research on the present situation of having windows OS
>> on top of XEN.
>> I have got to know that RedHat or SuSE etc doesnt support Windows as
>> a guest OS even if its fully virtualized.
>
> Well, fully virtualized is the ONLY choice here, so why bring that
> into the equation.
>
> Note also that "not supported" doesn't mean that it doesn't work - it
> just means that you have no comeback should you rely on this feature.
> If you buy a Land Rover, it may state in the instruction manual that
> it doesn't work in water - but it doesn't mean that you absolute can't
> drive it through a river, just that you can't claim on the warranty if
> you end up sucking in water through the air-intake...
>
>> But documentation over the net says that there are many people who
>> have successfully installed Windows OS on top of XEN, having LINUX as
>> a host OS(i am not sure about which linux version).
>
> The important key here is probably more which version of Xen that the
> guest is run upon, rather than which OS is used for the host - why
> would the host matter? It's just there to allow you to do "xm create"
> and to translate disk read requests into file-reads, virtual network
> requests to real network requests, etc. Nothing much depends on the
> HOST os in a Xen implementation.
>>
>> So if you have got any information, even if you have not implement
>> it, do comment and those who have successfully installed it then do
>> share it like on which Host system it worked and all .
>
> Isn't this pretty meaningless to post on this list - this is a Xen
> users list, so if they are using Xen, they are bound to use some
> variant of Linux. It's not like Debian, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux or SuSE Enterprise Linux are entirely differnet host
> OS's - they all use the same Linux Kernel - they may have some
> slightly different sets of patches applied to the kernel and of course.
>
>>
>> But as far as i know after lot of research that in coming year by end
>> of march RedHat, SuSE would support windows as a guest OS.
>
> That is up to RedHat and SuSE, and based on their evaluation of the
> Xen version available at the time, I would expect.
>
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