RE: [Xen-devel] Xen 3.04 fails to boot Win2k

["Ian Pratt" <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Xen is a different virtual machine from qemu -- you can't
necessarily
> > expect to move images directly between the two (though it does often
> > work).
> 
> Seeing that Xen uses qemu as its device model, that is really
> intersting!
> 
> Could you explain a bit why and what are the differences between Xen
> and qemu, so some qemu machine cannot run on Xen?

There's more to it than just the device models: there's the CPU and
firmware (ACPI, BIOS) etc.

You certainly need to make sure that the combination of options you set
in QEMU are identical to what you set in Xen otherwise you won't stand a
chance of it working.

Ian

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