[Fedora-xen] Running Xen on low spec single CPU

[Markus Armbruster]

Adrian Revill <adrian.revill at shazamteam.net> writes:

> I know a lot of people just see Xen as a method to use over spec'd
> boxes more efficiently, but im interested in using its virtulisation
> capabilities on low  spec systems.
> Has any one had any luck with getting a DomU running on a single CPU.
>
> I seem to get stuck during the install, as far as i can see it seems
> that the DomU is not being allocated CPU time.
>
> Using Fedora 6, i can get through the anaconda stage in about 1/2 hr
> but when the X window starts the CPU use drops to near 0% and i never
> get past a black screen with the X cursor.

Shot from the hip: how much physical RAM?  How much memory allocated
to the domU?