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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 08:32:18AM +0000, Adrian Revill wrote:
> 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.

How much RAM did you give the guest install VM - RAM is much more important
than CPU speed - I've seen hangs like the one you describe when I didn't
give enough RAM for install.

Dan.
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