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

[John Wilson <j.wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey,

I had serious speed issues using the vnc options...
BUT...
If you put 'stdvga=1' into the config file and disable vnc, it opens up the
viewer window automatically and provides a significant performance boost to
windows...:)

John


Quoting Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> You should be able to spawn the vncviewer automatically from xm (and have the
> device emulation automatically connect to it).  Try setting: vnc=1 to start
> the server and vncviewer='yes' in the config to spawn a VNC viewer
>
> It should work - otherwise the code in create.py and image.py can probably be
> hacked to fix it without too much difficulty.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
> On Thursday 15 September 2005 19:53, John Wilson wrote:
> > 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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