Moving Dell's pre-installed Windows inside Xen

[Jonathan Lambert]

Matt:

You can use Xen, but you just can¹t run windows, you¹ll need a custom kernel
designed to run as Dom0 (if on Linux), and you may have some glibc problems
with threadlocal support, but it works just fine if you¹re willing to hack
it.

We¹re running it on a couple of Dell 750s (single core, old school) no
problem.  We¹ve also run it successfully on about a dozen Dell 420SCs. ;-)

Jonathan


On 6/2/06 2:12 PM, "Kevin Kwast" <kevintx at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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  <mailto: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
>> 
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