Re: [Xen-users] Howto about how to install windows 2000 from a cd under Xen (linux ) - newbie

["Mark Ryden" <markryde@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mats,
Tnanks, this encourages me !

> The following is my input to "xm create" for a Win2k3 installation (yes,
> I was lazy and re-used the winxp config file, so some things reference
> "winxp" instead of "win2k3" - you may want to search for "win" and
> manually replace it with a suitable name).
It seems to me that the config file for winxp/win2k3 was somehow omitted from
your message; can you please send it ?

Regards,
Mark


On 12/4/06, Petersson, Mats <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark Ryden
> > Sent: 04 December 2006 16:17
> > To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [Xen-users] Howto about how to install windows 2000
> > from a cd under Xen (linux ) - newbie
> >
> > Hello,
> > 1) Can anyone please point me (or explain) to a step by step working
> > tutorial/howto on what
> > should be done in order to install windows 2000 from a cd
> > under Xen on a linux
> > x86_64 AMD machine (which has virtulaization , aka SVM ,
> > support , as can be
> > seen from cat /proc/cpuinfo ). Preferably also give an example of what
> > should be
> > the input file to "hm create" in case this is done with "xm create".
>
> The following is my input to "xm create" for a Win2k3 installation (yes,
> I was lazy and re-used the winxp config file, so some things reference
> "winxp" instead of "win2k3" - you may want to search for "win" and
> manually replace it with a suitable name).
>
> You'll probably also need to replace the "phy:/dev/hdd,hdc:cdrom" with
> whatever your physical CDROM drive happens to be in your system).
>
> I don't know for sure that this works for win2k, but I would think so
> (although there's something funny about Win2k and the speed of writing
> to the screen during that first startup-phase that may not work in
> AMD-systems).
>
> >
> > 2) My machine has Fedora Core 6, which has a virt-manager and
> > xen kernel
> > by deault.
> > Can this be done with the virt-manager ?
> > (BTW, I had succeeded installing a paravirtualized linux FC6
> > with virt-manager
> > on this machine).
>
> Probably possible, but I've never tried.
>
> --
> Mats
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mark
> >
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