XP on Xen??

[Gilboa Davara]

On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 22:06 -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:
> ( I  need to amend my tax return)
> 
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1946539,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
> 
> "Kettler demonstrated a virtualized desktop environment on a Dell
> OptiPlex PC powered by a dual-core Intel Xeon processor and running
> Red Hat Linux. Included in the PC was the Xen 3.0 open-source
> virtualization hypervisor and the open-source Firefox Web browser.
> Through the environment, he was able to create multiple virtual
> machines that ran not only Linux but also Windows."
> 
> There is a very good "quick start" howto at
> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstart#head-811c0b64cf8c322a9d1463a95030a005dc485356
> but it doesn't cover Windows.
> 
> Has anyone on this list been able to accomplish this?
> 
> -- 

You'll need VT enabled CPU in-order to run unmodified OS (such as
Windows) using Xen.
For now only certain Xeon models are VT enabled.
Most future AMD and Intel CPUs (both Desktop and Server class) will
support virtualization within the next quarter or two.

http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/IntelVT

Gilboa