Moving Dell's pre-installed Windows inside Xen

[Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com]

For VMWare you can use this tool:
http://www.vmware.com/products/p2v/
 
Sorry but the only thing that I could find for Xen is using the Phsical
harddrive as a VBD, page 21 in the Xen user manual.

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From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Lambert
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 4:28 PM
To: Kevin Kwast; Domsch, Matt; linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: Re: Moving Dell's pre-installed Windows inside Xen


Matt:

You can use Xen, but you just can't run windows, you'll 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
you're willing to hack it.

We're running it on a couple of Dell 750s (single core, old school) no
problem.  We've 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> <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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