Re: [Xen-users] Windows 7 as guest on a physikal disk

[Joseph Glanville <joseph.glanville@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2 April 2012 22:42, Ken Cobler <kcobler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Jen,
>
> I used dd to copy the physical device to a linux file.
>
> Ken
>
>
>> Hi Ken,
>>
>> thanks for the reply, I want to try that. How did you copy
>> the Windows from disk to file? Did you make a raw copy
>> using 'dd' or did you copy the files using 'cp' on the loop-mounted
>> file system?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Jens
>>
>>
>> On 03/22/2012 03:05 PM, Ken Cobler wrote:
>>>
>>> Quoting Jens Krause <jens.krause@xxxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>>> Hallo,
>>>>
>>>> I have an installed Windows 7 on one partition
>>>> and running Debain Squeeze on the other. Both are 64 bit.
>>>> I want to use Xen to run Windows as virtual guest from
>>>> a physical disk. Once I get this working the Window will
>>>> never be booted directly.

Did you install the Windows guest via Xen or did you install it baremetal?

>>>>
>>>>
>>>> When I try to create the virtual machine by
>>>> "xm create -c win.xen"
>>>> it hangs.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The versions I use
>>>> Xen 4.0.1-4
>>>> Kernel 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64
>>>>
>>>
>>> I believe with the version of Xen (or maybe the Linux OS), there was an
>>> issue with physical device blocking.
>>>
>>> I had a similar problem with Windows 2008.
>>>
>>> I resolved the problem for my situation be simply creating the OS as a
>>> file, mounting the device under Linux, then using the GPLPV drivers in
>>> Windows to achieve decent disk throughput for the guest OS.
>>>
>>> Ken Cobler
>>>
>>>
>>>
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