RE: [Xen-users] Research -> do participate.....

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

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> Subject: [Xen-users] Research -> do participate.....
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> Hi all,
> This is simple research on the present situation of having 
> windows OS on top
> of XEN.
> I have got to know that RedHat or SuSE etc doesnt support 
> Windows as a guest
> OS even if its fully virtualized.

Well, fully virtualized is the ONLY choice here, so why bring that into
the equation. 

Note also that "not supported" doesn't mean that it doesn't work - it
just means that you have no comeback should you rely on this feature. If
you buy a Land Rover, it may state in the instruction manual that it
doesn't work in water - but it doesn't mean that you absolute can't
drive it through a river, just that you can't claim on the warranty if
you end up sucking in water through the air-intake... 

> But documentation over the net says that there are many 
> people who have
> successfully installed Windows OS on top of XEN, having LINUX 
> as a host OS(i
> am not sure about which linux version).

The important key here is probably more which version of Xen that the
guest is run upon, rather than which OS is used for the host - why would
the host matter? It's just there to allow you to do "xm create" and to
translate disk read requests into file-reads, virtual network requests
to real network requests, etc. Nothing much depends on the HOST os in a
Xen implementation. 
> 
> So if you have got any information, even if you have not 
> implement it, do
> comment and those who have successfully installed it then do 
> share it like
> on which Host system it worked and all .

Isn't this pretty meaningless to post on this list - this is a Xen users
list, so if they are using Xen, they are bound to use some variant of
Linux. It's not like Debian, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
or SuSE Enterprise Linux are entirely differnet host OS's - they all use
the same Linux Kernel - they may have some slightly different sets of
patches applied to the kernel and of course. 

> 
> But as far as i know after lot of research that in coming 
> year by end of
> march RedHat, SuSE would support windows as a guest OS.

That is up to RedHat and SuSE, and based on their evaluation of the Xen
version available at the time, I would expect. 

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