[Fedora-xen] configuration for windows image with VT machine

[Matthias Bayer]

Hi Yonkang,

you are right, grub is installed on /dev/sda and i can choose which OS i want to boot.

i still can't boot the windows system from my first partition using this config file (any ideas what's wrong here ?).

name = "WinXPPro_xendom1_local"
builder = "hvm"
memory = "512"
disk = [ 'phy:/dev/sda,hda,w' ]
vif = [ 'type=ioemu,bridge=xenbr0,mac=00:16:3e:63:72:e2' ]
on_reboot   = 'restart'
on_crash    = 'restart'
kernel = '/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader'
device_model = '/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
sdl = 1 # use SDL for graphics
vnc = 0 # use VNC for graphics
vncviewer = 0 # spawn vncviewer by default

if i create the domain with 'xm create WinXPPro_xendom1_local'  everything looks  good, no errors shown.
xm list shows:

Name                              ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State  Time(s)
Domain-0                           0     2504     2 r-----   320.7
WinXPPro_xendom1_local             4      512     1 -b----     0.0

also, where can is see why it stops and how far the boot process went ?
any hints very welcome !

regards,
Matthias




> Hi Matthias,
> 
> I think the bootloader is installed at /dev/sda, which can select to boot the Windows XP partition right?
> You can modify /etc/xen/xmexample.hvm to change to following configuration and create the VMX with it.
> 	disk = [ 'phy:/dev/sda,ioemu:hda,w' ]
> 	sdl=1
> 	vnc=0
> 	vncviewer=0
> 
> Creating Windows VMX has no difference with other unmodified Linux.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Yongkang (Kangkang) 氞康
> ________________________________________
> From: fedora-xen-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-xen-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Matthias Bayer
> Sent: 2006幎4月4日 19:16
> To: fedora-xen at redhat.com
> Subject: [Fedora-xen] configuration for windows image with VT machine
> 
> Hi,
>  
> i have a brand new system with VT technology (HP XW4300).
> i am running FC5 with XEN kernel 2.6.16-1.2080_FC5xen0 on it.
> on the harddisk (/dev/sda) there are two partitions. sda1 has a native windows XP system installed while sda2 is /boot and sda3 is / for the FC5 system.
>  
> now i want to run the windows system under xen control using the installed windows system on the first partition.
>  
> what would i need to configure to make this work ?
> how does the config file needs to look like ?
> is there a documentation available on how to make windows run unmodified under xen ?
>  
> any hints welcome !
>  
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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