XP on Xen??
David Cary Hart
Fedora at TQMcube.com
Thu Apr 6 14:02:40 UTC 2006
On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 13:28:10 +0300
Gilboa Davara <gilboad at gmail.com> opined:
> 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
>
Thanks.
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