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Re: [Xen-users] Win Vista on Xen

To: Nicolas Michel <nicolas.michel@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Win Vista on Xen
From: Matthew Richardson <M.Richardson@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:45:30 +0100
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Nicolas Michel wrote:
>  Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm really new with xen. I just succeded installing and using Vista as a
> xen guest through VNC. But there is a little problem : the mouse cursor
> is not fluent. It freezes a lot. The xen serveur and my VNC viewer are
> on computers on the same LAN network (100mbps). Using Vista with this
> problem is frustrating and user time-consuming.
> Here is my xen guest config file :
> 
>     kernel = "/usr/lib64/xen-3.2-1/boot/hvmloader"
>     builder='hvm'
>     device_model = '/usr/lib64/xen-3.2-1/bin/qemu-dm'
>     disk = ['tap:aio:/xen/win_vista_c.img,hda,w']
>     vnc=1
>     vnclisten="192.168.1.167"
>     boot="dc"
>     memory="2048"
> 
> Is someone have a tips?
>

The mouse in Windows on Xen via VNC can be quite unreliable - I'd
recommend using either the virt-viewer in Xen or remote desktop (rdp)
for access to the windows guest.

Matthew

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