Latitude D820 +Virtualization

[Victor_Lowther at Dell.com]

From: Art Fore [mailto:art.fore at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 9:55 AM
To: Lowther, Victor; linux-desktops
Subject: Re: Latitude D820 +Virtualization

> Yes, FC6 has the xen packages, 3.0.3.

Good to know.

> These come from an Intel program that is mean for bios developers 
> to determine if their machine is linux capable. It is included  
> with Suse 10.2 on the dvd and is one of the options after 
> booting from the DVD. I also downloaded it from the intel site at 
> http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org/download.php and burned a 
> bootable CDROM.

Ah, no wonder I did not recognize it.  I have gone ahead and forwarded
your feedback on the ACPI tables to our BIOS team -- they have an
ongoing project to look for and fix issues like this.

>As luck would have it, I just got WinXP installed under Xen kernel 
>in Suse 10.2. Took almost a month, but now it is going. Don't know 
>how well it performs yet, will have to install my CAD programs and 
>check it out.

Glad to hear it!  Would you mind mailing the procedure you ended up
using to get things working to this list so that we have something to
give to others who may have similar issues?

>Art

Victor Lowther
Data Analyst @ Dell, Linux Enthusiast @ home

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