Re: [Xen-users] Problem: Windows on Xen

[Sadique Puthen <sputhenp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

davefury wrote:
> Hi there, first of all I must say i'm a little noobish at Linux and Xen.
> Currently I'm using Debian Etch x86_64, and I'd like to virtualize
> WindowsXP.
>
> The machine is a Intel Xeon which supports VT instructions.
>
> I've followed thousands of tutorials, guides and forums. (I think) I've
> successfully created the domain, and the thing is the console freezes when I
> execute xm console win. Just no error output, the key cursor wont even move.
>   
When you do "xm console win" - where win is a windows machine - from an 
ssh session from dom0, what do you expect as the output?  If I am 
running the same command against a linux machine, I would expect a log 
in prompt, but what for windows?  I don't think it's possible to get 
what you expect.
--Sadique

> The only solution to this is opening a new terminal and destroying the
> domain.
>
> The thing is I'm accessing to the server through ssh, and I could guess is
> something about the graphical output. Tried SDL but I get quite a lot of
> errors on the log. Using VNC, this is the log:
>
> domid: 47
> qemu: the number of cpus is 1
> shared page at pfn:1ffff, mfn: 435da
> buffered io page at pfn:1fffd, mfn: 435dc
> char device redirected to /dev/pts/3
> False I/O request ... in-service already: 0, pvalid: 0, port: 0, data: 0,
> count: 0, size: 0
>
>
>
>   

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