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Re: [Xen-users] Xen and Windows in Fedora 7



>On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 08:01:21PM +0400, ymed wrote:
>> >On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 07:34:14PM +0400, ymed wrote:
>> >> I have found that Xen HVMs in Fedora 7 work only via VNC.
>> >> virsh dumpxml xp64 > xp64.xml
>> >> shows me <graphics type='vnc' port='-1'/> and Windows screen is available.
>> >> When I set it to <graphics type='sdl'/> virt-manager says that the console
>> >> is currently unavailable... The same situation is when I use xm create...
>> >> but domain starts sucessfully...
>> >
>> >SDL graphics are used to popup a standalone X window. Virt-manager wants to
>> >have the virtual console embedded within its own UI. So if you want to be
>> >able to display the console in virt-manager, VNC is the only practical 
>> >option
>> >for now. 
>> 
>> But in VNC it's not possible to use cd-rom or iso-files. Also full screen 
>> is not available and mouse works with interrupts. Usually I used SDL for
>> local graphic and VNC for remote....
>
>Huh?  CDROM/ISO files work just fine with VNC. If you want to change the
>media / file, then the command line  'xm block-configure' command can be
>used.  
>
>Now full screen capabilities are upto the VNC client - virt-manager 
>can make its main window go full screen, but won't currently stretch the
>guest console to fill the entire screen. We've got a new VNC widget being
>written to allow us to do that better. As for mouse, that's another thing
>that will be attacked in a not-too-distant release, by making it choose
>either a USB tablet, or regular tablet which allows absolute mouse co-ords
>to be used. In the meantime we 'grab' the local mouse cursor and hide it
>so you only see the remote cursor - this is (almost) equivalent to what SDL
>does with the mouse.
>
>Dan.

Unfortunately I do not know how to use xm block-configure command because I do 
not know front and back names.

The output of virsh for VNC domain is:
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<driver name='file'/>
<source file='/myiso.iso/>
<target dev='hdb'/>
</disk>
But I do not see this disk in Windows...

When I add iso-file by means of virt-manager (Tab "Hardware" -> Add-> Storage 
device -> Simple File -> myiso.iso) there is no disk in Windows too...

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