Fedora, xen and Windoze

[Christian Schuermann]

Hi all!

Has actually somebody managed to run Windows as domU? I'm asking because 
setup dies here just after "Setup is starting Windows 2000/XP". I've 
also tested FC6test2 but it doesn't even boot there.

Regards, Chris

[Andrew Cathrow]

This is one of those areas where your mileage may vary ...

I recently installed XP in FC5 ( 2.6.17-1.2157 kernel). For reasons I
don't quite understand the regular XP cd didn't work - it hung early on
but the XP-with-sp2 cd worked like a charm.

See the following link for some more advice
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2006-06/msg00452.html



On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 15:37 +0200, Christian Schuermann wrote:

>  Hi all!
>  
>  Has actually somebody managed to run Windows as domU? I'm asking because 
>  setup dies here just after "Setup is starting Windows 2000/XP". I've 
>  also tested FC6test2 but it doesn't even boot there.
>  
>  Regards, Chris
>  
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[Christian Schuermann]

Andrew Cathrow schrieb:
>  This is one of those areas where your mileage may vary ...
>  
>  I recently installed XP in FC5 ( 2.6.17-1.2157 kernel). For reasons I 
>  don't quite understand the regular XP cd didn't work - it hung early on 
>  but the XP-with-sp2 cd worked like a charm. 
I've tried Win2k/XP/2k3 now. Different CDs or from images.

>  See the following link for some more advice
>  http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2006-06/msg00452.html 
That's actually the same I did (besides the F5-Hint but it didn't work 
either)

So now I'm sittin here with a brand new AMD Box and there is nothing to 
do but wait :(

Regards, Chris

[Tomáš Kouba]

Christian Schuermann wrote:
>  Andrew Cathrow schrieb:
> > This is one of those areas where your mileage may vary ...
> >
> > I recently installed XP in FC5 ( 2.6.17-1.2157 kernel). For reasons I 
> > don't quite understand the regular XP cd didn't work - it hung early 
> > on but the XP-with-sp2 cd worked like a charm.
>  
>  I've tried Win2k/XP/2k3 now. Different CDs or from images.
>  
> > See the following link for some more advice
> > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2006-06/msg00452.html
>  
>  That's actually the same I did (besides the F5-Hint but it didn't work 
>  either)
>  
>  So now I'm sittin here with a brand new AMD Box and there is nothing to 
>  do but wait :( 
Hi,
I didn't follow the discussion from the beginning but have you tried to 
install WinXP in qemu and then use it in Xen?
I had some "stucking" problem with win installation too but in qemu it 
worked well and now I use it in Xen (btw. 10times faster according to 
SiSoft Sandra benchmark).

-- 
Tomas Kouba

[Christian Schuermann]

Tomas Kouba schrieb:
>  Christian Schuermann wrote:
> > Andrew Cathrow schrieb:
> >> This is one of those areas where your mileage may vary ...
> >>
> >> I recently installed XP in FC5 ( 2.6.17-1.2157 kernel). For reasons I 
> >> don't quite understand the regular XP cd didn't work - it hung early 
> >> on but the XP-with-sp2 cd worked like a charm.
> >
> > I've tried Win2k/XP/2k3 now. Different CDs or from images.
> >
> >> See the following link for some more advice
> >> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2006-06/msg00452.html
> >
> > That's actually the same I did (besides the F5-Hint but it didn't work 
> > either)
> >
> > So now I'm sittin here with a brand new AMD Box and there is nothing 
> > to do but wait :(
>  
>  Hi,
>  I didn't follow the discussion from the beginning but have you tried to 
>  install WinXP in qemu and then use it in Xen?
>  I had some "stucking" problem with win installation too but in qemu it 
>  worked well and now I use it in Xen (btw. 10times faster according to 
>  SiSoft Sandra benchmark). 
Man, you definitely made my day! It works!

Thanks a lot,

Chris