[Xen-users] Setup WinXP with HVM and qemu image

[Geert Janssens <info@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am trying to accomplish the following:
- The hardware is a recent HP workstation xw6400 with a dual core Xeon 
processor. HVM is enabled in bios. 2Gb Ram available.
- Dom0 is Centos 5, x86 (on xen 3.0.3 with redhat's modifications)
- I would like to migrate a Qemu Windows XP installation to a xen hvm

I figured this should not be too hard, because full virtualisation uses the 
same (or allmost the same?) device model as qemu and under qemu, my Windows 
XP installation is working fine.

I have created a config file (see below), and started the guest domain with 
xm create /etc/xen/WinXP.hvm

xm then tells me that the domain was started succesfully, and xm list does 
show it:
[root@localhost ~]# xm list
Name                                      ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State   Time(s)
Domain-0                                   0     1488     2 r-----    185.5
WindowsXP                                  6      517     1 ------      0.0

However, I can't find a way to connect to it via vnc. I tried
vncviewer localhost:10

But this returns immediatly with
VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.2 for X - built Mar 14 2007 22:51:02
Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.

Thu May 31 22:53:15 2007
 main:        unable to connect to host: Connection refused (111)

What is happening here ?

Below is my Guest domain's config. I have set the options to match the 
original qemu config as close as possible.
#  -*- mode: python; -*-
#============================================================================
# Python configuration setup for 'xm create'.
# This script sets the parameters used when a domain is created using 'xm 
create'.
# You use a separate script for each domain you want to create, or
# you can set the parameters for the domain on the xm command line.
#============================================================================
import os, re
arch = os.uname()[4]
if re.search('64', arch):
    arch_libdir = 'lib64'
else:
    arch_libdir = 'lib'
kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
builder='hvm'
memory = 512
shadow_memory = 8
name = "WindowsXP"
vcpus=2
#pae=0
#acpi=0
#apic=0
vif = [ 'type=ioemu, mac=00:18:32:6c:00:ba, bridge=xenbr0' ]
disk = [ 'file:/var/images/winxp.qcow,hda,w', ',hdc:cdrom,r' ]
device_model = '/usr/' + arch_libdir + '/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
sdl=0
vnc=1
vncdisplay=10
vncconsole=0
vncpasswd=''
stdvga=1
serial='pty'
soundhw='sb16'
usb=1
usbdevice='tablet'
keymap='be'


Geert

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