Re: [Xen-users] Re: testing VMware inside an HVM

[bigfoot29 <bigfoot29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Heh... I dont know whats possible or if its not possible for others...
it worked.

I wrote the specs of the system in the other thread.

Basically its an AMD64-System with 64 Bit Ubuntu OS, Xen 3.1,
Windows2003Web with VMWare Server 1.0.4

I dont know if trouble might occur later on but an installation inside
VMWare went through (fine) till the point where it asks for a valid key
that I dont have.

Regards, Bigfoot29


Am Samstag, den 22.09.2007, 15:39 +0200 schrieb Jan Michael:
> Hi Bigfoot29 (please use your real name),
> 
> > I can confirm that VMWare runs if you launch it within a Win2k3- 
> > Session.
> > The GSX-Server isn't all that fast (well, it never really is under
> > Windows), but its working. So if you want to give it a try, this  
> > might be
> > a possible solution.
> 
> I thought that this is technically impossible. Can you tell something  
> about the performance footprint?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>       Jan
> 
> 
> On 22.09.2007, at 09:47, bigfoot29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Hi there.
> >
> > I can confirm that VMWare runs if you launch it within a Win2k3- 
> > Session.
> > The GSX-Server isn't all that fast (well, it never really is under
> > Windows), but its working. So if you want to give it a try, this  
> > might be
> > a possible solution.
> >
> > Regards, Bigfoot29
> >
> >
> >
> >> Message: 3
> >> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:57:32 -0600
> >> From: Scott Serr <serrs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Subject: [Xen-users] testing VMware inside an HVM
> >> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Message-ID: <46F227EC.30609@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> >>
> >> Now that I have an HVM running CentOS 4.5, I decided that I had to  
> >> test
> >> out VMware Player inside it.  I'd like to colaborate on a project  
> >> using
> >> VMware Workstation, but would like to use Xen for everything else.
> >>
> >> Good news:
> >> vmware-config.pl runs fine
> >> modules install ... virtual machine monitor, etc, vmnet0, vmnet1,  
> >> vmnet8
> >> all [ OK ]
> >> vmplayer fires up fine
> >> Select an image config (.vmx) to start
> >>
> >> Bad news:
> >> Almost starts but gives this error...  "You are running VMware
> >> Workstation via the Xen hypervisor which is known to be incompatible
> >> with VMware Workstation.  You may not power on a virtual machine  
> >> until
> >> this hypervisor is disabled."
> >>
> >> Interesting...  It's almost as if...  there might be a way to bypass
> >> this and bleed.  Set an env variable?
> >>
> >> Has anyone had better luck?  By the wording I wonder if an older  
> >> version
> >> of VMware Player or Workstation would try to work.
> >>
> >> Interesting,
> >> Scott
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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