[Fedora-xen] xen partitioning for Vista

[Andrew Cathrow]

See what happens if you give it a file instead of a physical partition.

Aic

On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 19:40 -0500, Ian Patton wrote:

> I added a new drive to use with a fully virtualized Xen domain.  I
> intend to run Vista on it.  Should the partition be formatted?  If so,
> should it be formatted using ext3 or ntfs?  Should the Windows
> installer do the partitioning?  I asked this as part of a multi-part
> question previously an only got a partial answer excluding this....
> On my system, the partition is /dev/hdc1 
> 
> On my first attempt at getting Vista to work, I used a file instead of
> a partition and it worked.  It worked for a very short period of time.
> Vista would boot and I could see the desktop.  The only thing that did
> not work was the network, which I was sure would be an easy fix.  I
> installed a few patches and some other software via Yum and at some
> point Vista stopped booting.  I decided to add a new 120G disk for it
> to use and start over, but ever since I have not been able to get it
> to run.  None of the logs show anything helpful.  It runs for about 5
> seconds, and I can see it boot from the ISO that I made, but after it
> loads the progress bar to 100% it tries to change the screen
> resolution or something and the processor drops to 0% and nothing else
> happens.  
> 
> Meanwhile, i have learned a bit about using Xen and tried to help
> others on the list, but still have gotten nowhere with my own
> problems.  I will be posting a nice howto once i get all the steps and
> facts straight. 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Ian Patton 
> 
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