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

[davefury <david.corral@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the reply again!

Sadly, 

vncviewer localhost:0

gives me a

"Error: Can't open display:"

:(


Igor Chubin wrote:
> 
> On Fr, Dez 14, 2007 at 02:34:47 -0800, davefury wrote:
>> 
>> I was expecting a Windows installation window or something, like the
>> windows
>> installation cd booting. Other tutorials i've followed about installing
>> windows on xen dont mention anything in particular... Just create the
>> domain
>> and "console" it. I've got the ssh addition that could mess the thing.
>> 
>> Thank you very much for the reply!
>> 
> 
> 
> Let us concentrate on VNC.
> 
> Enable vnc usage in the domain config file.
> And after you have started the domain
> 
>   xm create win
> 
> try to attach to vnc session using vncviewer:
> 
>  vncviewer localhost:0
> 
> 
>> 
>> 
>> Sadique Puthen wrote:
>> > 
>> > 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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