Re: [Xen-users] Whats needed for XP

["Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Williamson wrote:
> > Is there anything out there that would say what packages are needed
> > to be able to do an install of windows systems on a Linux distro? I
> > would like to keep dom0 as spartan as possible and only install what
> > is needed for an install of windows. I have a pretty minimal install
> > of Slack that will run all of my Linux domU's but am not sure if
> > anything else is needed for windows domUs, is X a requirement, etc,
> > etc?
> I think the requirements are pretty similar as for PV domUs...
>
> You may need SDL development packages installed and building the VNC
> server might require some X-related header files...  but you don't
> actually need to install or run an X server on the dom0.  You also
> need bcc for compiling some HVM guest-related goop.
>
> If you installed from binary packages, this should be a non-issue
> anyhow and it'll probably Just Work (assuming you have HVM-capable
> hardware).
>
> You can either use the VNC server to export Windows' framebuffer or
> you can just use the SDL interface over SSH X-forwarding.
You can also use a distro that has vaguely sane package management, rather 
than building it yourself. The published "jailtime" OS images for RedHat 
based operating systems are very useful this way: you then install the Xen 
packages on top of that, using yum to sort out the dependencies. 

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