Virtualization hassles

[John Lagrue]

On 05/06/07, Phil Meyer <pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com> wrote:
> John Lagrue wrote:
> > I have at least two problems running a virtual machine on F7
> >
> > 1. Running qemu from hte command line means I can create a virtual
> > disk, run a virtual machine and install Windows XP on it. I can do
> > this because it enables me to define the cdrom on the command line
> > with "-cdrom /dev/cdrom". But I can't get any further because it keeps
> > giving me an error saying "A problem is preventing Windows from
> > accurately checking the license for this computer"
> >
> > If I run the same virtual machine from the virtual machine manager I
> > don't get that error. But I don't get the CD ROM either
> >
> >
> > 2. The above was obtained with QEMU. If I try to connect the Virtual
> > Machine Manager to XEN I get an error that tells me that either I'm
> > not running a XEN-enabled kernel, or the XEN service isn't running.
> > Unfortunately, it is running!
> >
> > Any advice from anyone on either of these? I would love to do away
> > with dual-booting my laptop and just run Vista in a VM when I need it,
> > but so far I'm not having a lot of luck.
> >
> > JDL
> >
>
> Have not been there yet, but this looked right to me:
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=656&num=1
>
> Hope it helps.

I'm afraid it doesn't. It's a fairly lightweight introduction on how
to get going with Virtual Machine Manager but it doesn't go into any
depth and doesn't raise any of my problems.

Nobody seems to be writing anything about this virtualization(not that
I can find anyway) so I'm currently stuffed :(

JDL