Re: [opensuse] Setting up WinXP VM (Xen)

Dear Kenneth, just (hopefully) a caution on deleting the NFS Partition
if you feel you no longer want/need it.

As you know Dell is infamous in using propitiatory hardware elements
that require you to install certain driver from the Utils CD.

For example, I had to format my Dell Desktop, however in order to get M$
windows to function I had to load from the Dell Utils CD,
1. A chipset driver
2. A sound card driver
3. A video driver
4. A NIC driver
none of which came on the Windows XP CD. I could not believe I could not
format the HDD put the Windows XP Cd in and I would be left with a
functional system - Not so. Because Dell don't publish their drivers to
anyone I had to use and install drivers for the above from their utils CD.
I did not even have a functioning NIC card at the end of a standard
Windows XP install.
Before either removing the NTFS Partition or running it as a VM - just
check that the components of your Dell don't require you to do too much
loading of proprietary device drivers.
I am sorry I cannot answer your VM question. I hope the above does help
a little in planning in the future for major changes.

Scott



Kenneth Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 23:10 +0200, Terje J. Hanssen wrote:

rkather@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Quoting "Terje J. Hanssen" <nteknikk@xxxxxxxx>:


My VT-enabled Dell Precision 490 Xeon workstation with 2GB RAM came
preinstalled with WinXP on the disk. I've installed SUSE with Xen server
as a
dualboot installation and wish now set up a VM to run WinXP full
virtualized.

I see VT enabled so;


My question is:
Is it required to install WinXP (once more) from the install media,
which requires another 4GB disk space and additional user space?
Or, is it possible in some way to utilize the already preinstalled
WindXP, possibly how to do it?

It is not required that you reinstall WinXP as you can boot from the
raw block
device with VT enabled Xen.

For example; If your XP install is on the first partition of your IDE
drive it
would be /dev/hda1.

Ryan

Ryan,

Thank you for your respons.
In my case WinXP is installed on /dev/sda2 mounted on /windows/C

What I have tried in the meantime are the following steps:

YaST2: Create Virtual Machine
* selected: I have a disk image with installed OS
and next selected: WinXP
Name of VM: set to WindowsXP
Kept: initial RAM for VM: 128 MB
maximum RAM: 1 GB

Disk > Harddisks
Source: /windows/C/boot.ini


Wouldn't you use /dev/sda2 instead?



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