[Fedora-xen] installing winxp on rhel5

[Andrew Cathrow]

On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 09:11 +0530, Deependra Shekhawat wrote:

> Hello guys,
> I have RHEL5. I want to install Windows XP on it using Xen. I heard I
> need PAE enabled processor. So I did the following:
> 


You need a PAE enabled processor for Xen, and VMX or SVM (intel and AMD
respectively) for full virtualization - so looking at the output below
you're covered for both.


> [root at server ~]# grep -i pae /proc/cpuinfo
> And I got this:
> flags           : fpu tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr mca cmov pat
> clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc pni
> monitor vmx est tm2 xtpr 
> flags           : fpu tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr mca cmov pat
> clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc up pni
> monitor vmx est tm2 xtpr
> [root at server ~]#
> 
> Does this tells that I have PAE enabled processor. One more thing I
> have 512 MB RAM (physical total RAM). So how much should I give to the
> Virtual Machine and last thing the installation source in this case
> can be a CD or ISO image. 


256 should be enough for an XP installation. You can use either CD or
ISO - I prefer to use ISO as it's simplier.


> Thanks in advance
> Regards
> Deependra
> 
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