[Fedora-xen] Is xen ready for HVM?

["Thomas Kocourek" <tkocou gmail com>]

I've been attempting to get a VM to boot via a floppy. I have tried all sorts of parameter massages between create/shutdown of a full virtualization domain. qemu-dm is running. When I look at the details of the virtual machine, the disk/cdrom/floppy appear to be mapped correctly. I tried shutting off SELinux to see if that might be interfering with the boot up. Made no difference, so I re-activated it.

I end up with one of two scenarios: either the VM freezes after throwing up the splash screen (pure floppy boot), or the VM boots from a CDRom, but fails to be recognized as a CDRom once the boot up is completed. Strange how a stripped down QEMU (qemu-dm) won't do the hardware management correctly, yet a pure QEMU will. 

guest OS: Windows 98 SE

IS there a chance that the hypervisor security is interfering with the HVM? A pure QEMU VM is such a resource hog and I wanted to try xen to see if the situation was any better. I have certain software which requires this older Windows to function. 

Comments?