Well, Xen in it's original form was and is a
Para-virtualized virtual machine monitor (hypervisor). It RELIES on
modifications of the source code of the OS to inform the hypervisor of important
changes to critical registers, i/o accesses, etc, etc. Since then, there's been
support added for HVM (Hardware Virtual Machine), but that requires a new
CPU that has the Virtualization features...
If Microsoft wanted to, they COULD release a version of
Windows that supports Para-virtualization on top of Xen, but my guess is that
the reasons they don't do this is many:
1. MS don't believe in the Open Source community - or at
least do not want to be seen to support it.
2. MS has their own Virtual Server that they want to
promote instead of Xen.
More reasons are quite likely - but I wouldn't really know
what.
There are of course other virtualization software sets that
would run on machines with no OS modifications, and with no hardware support for
virtualization. VMWare is one, there are others too.
I doubt anyone with access to Windows Source would actually
send you a copy - that would definitely be a BIG breach of the licensing
contract. ;-)
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Mats
Hi, Petersson
Thank you
firstly.
are you kidding, windows
source, my god:)
The cpu of my notebook is
Pentium M, and it does't support Intel Virtualization Technology.
Is there a compromised method? why not patch
windows just like windows patch from the Microsoft official? or anybody who
has the source code of windows sends me a copy:)
Petersson, Mats 写道:
-----Original Message-----
From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Phinux Chang
Sent: 22 March 2006 06:47
To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Xen-users] help: ports of windows
hi, all
I want to use windows xp in xen vitual machine, but I find
nothing about that except the name of Intel Virtualization Technology.
Is there anyone knows the howto, please help me, thank
you:) I will apreciate it, thanks very much!
Well, the guys at XenSource have done it. The "Howto" is both rather
trivial and very complicated:
1. Get source code for Windows.
2. Apply suitable modifications to source code (probably available from
XenSource if you have a documentable Windows source license). Although I
think patches may not be up to date with Xen 3.0.x
3. Go run it.
The difficult part of this is getting a source license from Microsoft -
they do not come with your breakfast cereals as a freebie ;-). More like
you have to pay millions of dollars and sign away the rest of your life
to get it...
Without source license to Windows, you haven't got a chance, except for
getting a processor that supports full virtualization - or using another
virtualization technology which doesn't rely on Xen and modifications to
the source code of the OS. There are several of those available.
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Mats
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