Moving Dell's pre-installed Windows inside Xen

[Harald_Jensas at Dell.com]

You have a FAT32 partition at the end of your drive. Have a look at what is inside, the name of the system is "Dell PC Restore by Symantec".
I bet if you have a look you will find a symantec Ghost image that you can extract and restore to a VM.
 
Best of luck!
 
 
//
Harald Jensås
 



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	From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Patrick_Boyd at dell.com
	Sent: 03 June 2006 19:34
	To: j at firebright.com; kevintx at gmail.com; Domsch, Matt; linux-poweredge-Lists
	Subject: RE: Moving Dell's pre-installed Windows inside Xen
	
	
	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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