[opensuse] Re: Xen on 11.3

I'm entirely new to virtualization. Xen install on 11.3 does not
appear to work. I bought a couple of books but haven't figured out
what to do yet since openSuse does not appear to do a complete
install.

I want to run 11.3 and windows 7 on the same machine (windows is
required at work). In the "Book of Xen" the author installs CentOS,
then Xen, then a virtualized version of CentOS. Does one need to
install the Xen host (in this case openSuse 11.3) again as a virtual
machine? If so, why does openSuse not have the defaults required to
do so? It selects one of the defined repositories but the install
will not happen because defaults are incorrect. Is there a way to
successfully install openSuse on itself again?

When I try to install windows it gets nearly finished then craps out
because it can't find a virtual interface. It appears when I install
Xen that the bridge is created but obviously windows can't find it and
neither can I access the network from host openSuse anymore; get an
error "Network unreachable".

Is it possible to get this combination to work? I'd like to have both
environments running on my desktop.

Thanks for any assistance or a pointer to a document explaining how to do it.
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