Re: [Xen-users] Xen Questions

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Thank you for the response.
It seems like XEN might help me a lot due to your response.

I started installing Xenserver and it chokes at "select video modes" and 
the Xen installer just hangs hard. No luck.
Since I can install about every linux distro on this machine it is not 
an issue with the machine itself, this must be a Citrix issue, so I wont 
entertain you with Citrix issues here.
Is there any linux distro with a built in XEN kernel from which I can 
install windows and maybe two other linux distros in order that I dont 
have to use Citrix's ISO ?.
The online information is confusing and I always gets to Citrix's isos 
looking for the purely community Xen distribution.

Thanks



Kun Cheng wrote:
> 2018-01-06 12:59 GMT+08:00  <liebrecht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > See sections labeled QUESTION. The other text is to understand the 
> > questions
> > and background.
> >
> > I never had reason to consider Xen as I dual boot operating systems as
> > needed.
> > Now I am seemingly forced to use Xen and I want to find out if it can 
> > do
> > what I want.
> > This is for personal use and not commercial.
> >
> > I have a 24 core 64GB mem. rackserver that needs to run windows and 
> > linux.
> > Linux does just fine sees, all 24 cores all memory (even my old FC7 
> > distro)
> > I used for numerical programming for studies long ago,
> >
> > Windows is another can of worms.
> > It seems that Windows 7&10 Professional will do two processors each of 
> > 12
> > cores from the specifications.
> > However, there is NO WAY Windows 7 or 10 will install on this server.
> >
> > QUESTION: Does Microsoft detect it is a rackserver and then 
> > intentionally
> > prevent the install forcing you to buy Windows server ?
> No, usually Windows installation should see it as a generic machine,
> nothing related to 'rackserver' will be exposed.
> > Both 7 and 10 fails after the first reboot during install.
> > I dont particularly want to use windows server as I need the bells and
> > whistles of Windows 7 and 10 which server doesnt have.
> >
> > It seems a hypervisor like XEN is the only way around the windows 
> > conundrum
> > as I can fool t to to look like a normal pc running it virtually.
> >
> > QUESTION:
> > How does Firewire and USB perform in XEN when hosting Windows ? Is 
> > there any
> > lack of USB/Firewire support or is performance sub par. ?
> Pretty good in my case, I haven't found any serious issues in my daily 
> use.
> > It seems that XEN is the only option to get 7pro and/or 10pro to run 
> > on this
> > machine.
> >
> > thanks !
> >
> >
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