RE: [Xen-users] Windows on Xen+VT

[John Wilson <j.wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How I managed to get VMX up and running:

1) Perform a Xen 3.0 source build with libvncserver installed
2) Modify the VMX config file and 'xm create -f vmx.img'
3) After confirmation of domain creation, 'netstat -nat' to look for the
vnc server (on port 590X)... mine was located at ip 0.0.0.0:5901
4) vncviewer 0.0.0.0:5901

And the VNC window opens up displaying the VMX domain in all its wonderful
glory:-)

My config file was just the vmx example with the image file changed.

John

Quoting "Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh"
> John,
>
> I have been trying to get VNC to work with VMX domains. I have the
> libvnc library installed. I have been able to get it working only get
> SDL. Could you please tell me what steps you followed? It would also be
> helpful if you could get me a copy of your Windows VMX domain's xm
> config file.
>
> Thanks,
> Aravindh
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Wilson [mailto:j.wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 3:55 PM
> > To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [Xen-users] Windows on Xen+VT
> >
> > To all you guys who have managed to get Windows up on Xen...
> >
> > Its early days for me as I only figured out how to get it up and
> running
> > through vnc today, but basically it runs rather slowly, and I wonder
> if
> > anyone has any experience on 'best practices' and such when creating
> WinXP
> > virtual machines.
> >
> > I'm currently using an image that boots to windows setup I made using
> > QEMU,
> > and it boots fine, tells me its resuming setup, then blue screens with
> a
> > reference to an infinite loop being detected in the framebuf driver.
> > (Although I think it might just be detecting extreme slowness as this
> > infinite loop).
> >
> > 1) So how to speed it up/why would it be going so slowly? (my linux
> VMX
> > machines don't exactly burn rubber either)
> > 2) Should I fully install windows onto the image with QEMU first?
> > 3) Should the video output be configured for full screen, as opposed
> to
> > windowed as it is currently?
> > 4)Is there any possibility at all that a VMX domain (especially
> windows)
> > could be run on a non-VT machine? (Beacause its a very new
> pre-production
> > bios and platform, and even though it's set up in the bios for VT, I
> don't
> > really trust it and it seems a little suspiciously slow... I suppose I
> > could test this in the lab really:-)
> > 5) Anything else I should know?
> >
> >
> > John


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