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Re: [Xen-users] Whats needed for XP


  • To: "Mark Williamson" <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <jonr@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: "Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:11:03 -0000
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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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