[Fedora-livecd-list] How To Create a LiveCD for Xen

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 07:37:42PM +0530, M P Sairam wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, does booting a live CD requires hardware support in 
> Xen?

In Xen yes:

>>          # virt-install \
>>               --hvm \

However QEMU will happily boot a CD-ROM ISO without hardware support.

> My processor is pentium 2.8GHz

That's not enough to tell.  Have a look at /proc/cpuinfo, flags, which
should contain 'vmx' if hardware-assisted fullvirt is supported.  (For
Intel you may also need to enable it in the BIOS).

Rich.

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