Moving Dell's pre-installed Windows inside Xen

[Kevin Kwast]

My Pentium D lacks VT support, so I can't use Xen. :(

I' just bought VMware Workstation 5.5.1 to use instead, but still have the
problem of how to reinstall Windows XP inside VMware using only the contents
of the Dell PC Restore partition.  I sure hope Dell is saving a lot of money
by not distributing installation media.. it's costing the loss of a lot of
good faith from people like me who have to jump through extra hoops because
of it.

Any ideas on how to pull that off, Matt?  Anyone else?

Thanks!

On 6/1/06, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 05:54:40PM -0500, Kevin Kwast wrote:
> >    I got a new Dimension workstation with Windows pre-installed, but I
> want
> >    to reinstall with Fedora 5 and run Windows under Xen virtualization.
>
> Do you know that the hardware processor you have includes the hardware
> virtualization assist "VT" capability?  That is necessary for Xen
> (which typically uses paravirtualized guest OSs, which of course
> Windows isn't).  http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/IntelVT  lists the
> Intel processors which are VT-capable.
>
> Some of our new Dimensions include Pentium D 9xx processors with VT
> capability, but those are at the higher end of the Dimension
> spectrum.  Lower down, Pentium D 8xx or Celeron D's won't have VT (per
> http://www.intel.com/products/processor_number/index_view_xeon.htm).
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
> --
> Matt Domsch
> Software Architect
> Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
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