Virtualization hassles

[John Lagrue]

On 05/06/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> John Lagrue wrote:
> > I have at least two problems running a virtual machine on F7
> >
> > 1. Running qemu from hte command line means I can create a virtual
> > disk, run a virtual machine and install Windows XP on it. I can do
> > this because it enables me to define the cdrom on the command line
> > with "-cdrom /dev/cdrom". But I can't get any further because it keeps
> > giving me an error saying "A problem is preventing Windows from
> > accurately checking the license for this computer"
> >
> > If I run the same virtual machine from the virtual machine manager I
> > don't get that error. But I don't get the CD ROM either
> >
> >
> > 2. The above was obtained with QEMU. If I try to connect the Virtual
> > Machine Manager to XEN I get an error that tells me that either I'm
> > not running a XEN-enabled kernel, or the XEN service isn't running.
> > Unfortunately, it is running!
> >
> > Any advice from anyone on either of these? I would love to do away
> > with dual-booting my laptop and just run Vista in a VM when I need it,
> > but so far I'm not having a lot of luck.
>
> Try fedora-xen list. That is more appropriate for virtualization questions.
>
> Rahul

I didn't even know it existed :) Thank you!