[opensuse] Installing xen on a working machine?

I have a recently acquired laptop, which came with Windows XP. I
reformatted the hard drive and installed 10.2 on one partition and Xp on
another, smaller partition (I need some stuff that only runs on Windows).

So, now, I'm dual-booting, and I'd like to move to a virtual machine
environment. I'd rather not have to reinstall everything. I've been
watching the list postings regarding quemu, VMware, and virtualbox.

Suse supports xen directly, but no one seems to be talking about it, and
the wiki has a slot for installing a VM from a disk image, but no text
(the page is a year old, still waiting for text). Also, the xen
documentation in /usr/share seems to imply that you need processor
support (the Intel VT extensions) to use XP under xen. I have a Core
duo, which doesn't have these extensions.

Am I understanding correctly that I can't use xen for XP in my machine?
Are the other virtualization systems better in some important sense than
xen, or is it just that no one is interested in xen? Where can I find
suse-oriented how-to's for these other systems if it's better to go
another way (I don't have a lot of time for futzing around with
half-prepared material, but I don't mind even considerable work
preparing and setting up something that promises to work well).

Any advice? pointers to detailed help? encouragement?


John Perry


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