RE: [Xen-users] XEN for Debian Installer development

["Petersson, Mats" <mats.petersson@xxxxxxx>]

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> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Ondra Medek
> Sent: 04 January 2006 11:05
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> Subject: [Xen-users] XEN for Debian Installer development
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm tweaking Debian Installer and I use VWware to test it. I 
> am courius if XEN could be suitable for the testing of Debian 
> Installer. Is there anybody who tried it?
> 
> What I need is that I make an ISO image which is booted in 
> virtual machine (DomU). The virtual machine handles an ISO 
> image as an ordinery CD-ROM.
> Then I need to connect to several consoles (Like Alt+F1, 
> Alt+F2, in normal Linux) in the virtual machine.
> 
> I have already tried XEN live demo CD, but I am still not 
> shure XEN is able to do what I need.

It doesn't work unless you have hardware virtual machine support, HVM,
(AMD SVM or Intel VT) in the processor. The para-virtualization that Xen
implements requires the OS to be modified, and it does not support
booting straight from a physical device. 

It should be possible to boot from a CD-ROM in a HVM system, and install
onto a virtual partition. 

--
Mats
> 
> Thanks for advices
>               Ondrej
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