[Fedora-xen] Minimal Fedora 8 Xen Setup for Laptop
Mathew Brown
mathewbrown at fastmail.fm
Wed Nov 14 15:58:55 UTC 2007
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:33:13 +0000, "Richard W.M. Jones"
<rjones at redhat.com> said:
> Mathew Brown wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I was considering installing a minimal Fedora 8 setup with the Xen
> > kernel and then performing most of my work in several different DomUs
> > (perhaps Fedora of Ubuntu) as well as running Windows in a VMware
> > setup (don't currently have hardware virtualization support). Note
> > that this is on a laptop. Are there any specific issues that I should
> > be aware of (such as suspend/resume issues, etc.) and does anyone have
> > any specific recommendations? Thank you for your help.
>
> Xen and laptops aren't really friends with each other. In particular
> power management doesn't work so the laptop will run hot and eat
> batteries, suspend/resume are unlikely to work, and so on.
I remember on the Xen mailing list that they wanted to encourage people
to start using Xen on laptops to help troubleshoot power management
related issues.
> Also it's difficult to mix different hypervisors. I don't think you can
> run Xen & VMWare at the same time.
>
> Have you thought about using qemu instead? A QEmu guest is just an
> ordinary Linux process, so much more predictable. It's a shame that
> your laptop doesn't have HVM. What is the processor?
I just rechecked. I have the HP nc6320 and just came across a post that
says that they released a BIOS update to enable virtualization :) I
hope to try it out. But even then, how stable is Windows under Xen (I
plan on running a lot of appliactions and trying to port my current
Windows setup + applications to it). I was planning on using P2V and
make a VMware virtual machine image of my current setup and then use
that under VMware. That would definitely be the easier approach. Also,
Qemu is very very slow. VirtualBox is a better approach. However,
neither VirtualBox or Qemu are really what I'm looking at (I've used
both in the past). Thanks for your help.
> Rich.
>
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