[Fedora-xen] Invalid file location given

Mark Nielsen mnielsen at redhat.com
Wed Jan 9 00:31:20 UTC 2008



Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 12:56:36PM -0500, Jack Smith wrote:
>   
>> I'm trying to set up a virtual machine running Windows XP.  I'm running
>> Fedora 8 version 2.6.21-2952.fc8xen virt-manager.py 0.5.2
>>
>> Paravirtualized
>>     
>
> ^^^^ This is your problem. 
>
> You need to install Windows XP as a fully virtualized guest - make sure
> you select 'Full virtualization' at this step of the install wizard
> in virt-manager.
>
>   http://virt-manager.org/screenshots/install/wizard-step3.png
>
> NB, if 'fully virtualized' is grayed out as in this screenshot then
> your CPUs does not support hardware virtualization and it is not possible
> todo Windows under Xen.
>
>   
Or... the virtualization technology is turned off in your BIOS, as I 
find is default with Dell servers. I don't know what other systems might 
have this off by default, so check your bios setting to see if VT is an 
option.




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