Latitude D820 +Virtualization

[Art Fore]

On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 10:04 -0600, Victor_Lowther at Dell.com wrote:
> 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
> 
> Victor_lowther at dell <-- work
> Victor.lowther at gmail.com <-- home

Sure, I can do that, but got to get some sleep. It is 12:30 AM here in
Taiwan and I have to go to work tomorrow. Also want to check out using
the NVIDIA drivers for the Nvidia card instead of the nv. I did have the
Xen kernel working with the 1.0-8762 drivers at one time, but took them
out to eliminate the possibility of it screwing up my WinXP install.
Probably be a couple of days.

Art