[Fedora-xen] Anyone using VT-x (vmx, hvm, ...)?

Fri Apr 7 07:50:19 UTC 2006

Hi JIm,

i have installed windows also from ISO to a virtual disk file as well as tried to boot an already installed windows from a partition. running the virtual disk file worked fine, still trying to boot the windows system from my first partition ....
my actual and working config file looks like this:

name = "WinXPPro_gabel"
builder = "hvm"
memory = "512"
disk = [ 'file:/images/WinXP_gabel.img,ioemu:hda,w' ]
vif = [ 'type=ioemu,bridge=xenbr0,mac=00:16:3e:63:73:f2' ]
on_reboot   = 'restart'
on_crash    = 'restart'
kernel = '/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader'
device_model = '/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
sdl = 0 # use SDL for graphics
vnc = 1 # use VNC for graphics
vncviewer = 0 # spawn vncviewer by default
nographic = 0 # don't use graphics
serial='pty' # enable serial console

to your second question:
i am running latest updates from official fedora site, means 

kernel-xenU-2.6.16-1.2080_FC5
xen-3.0.1-4
kernel-xen0-2.6.16-1.2080_FC5

hope that helps, let me know if you need anything else and let me know if yopu manage to make it work to boot windows from another disk ....

regards,
Matthias

> Thanks.  My system is a Proliant server, which has pluggable disks, so I probably don't even need to use qemu.  I can just pop out the FC5 disks and pop in a windows disk and do a real install.
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> I saw the thread with your line of questions, it looks like you installed Windows to a disk partition, not to a virtual disk file.  I was trying to get the VT-x virtual machine to do the install from an ISO to a virtual file, but could not even connect to a console.
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> I'll do some installs to removable disks and play around with that to see what happens.
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> Could you send me your latest working xen conf file for the Windows VM so I can check that against mine?  I know you posted a copy of one in the list, but that was before you got things working, so maybe it is no longer current.
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> From: Matthias Bayer [mailto:matbayer.web at web.de] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 1:54 AM
> To: Reuter, Jim; fedora-xen at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] Anyone using VT-x (vmx, hvm, ...)?
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> Hi Jim,
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> i am using fedora-xen and VT on an new HP XW4300 workstation and i am running fully virtualized Windows systems on it.
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> i had the same problems as you and therefore i used a 'workaround' to get the things running:
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> i just installed 'qemu' and installed the windows system from an ISO file under qemu and then started it under xen  control later - works perfect for me here.
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> if you need more information on what  i have done exactly just let me know. there are some 'tricks' that can make your life much easier using this way of installation as the graphical output is very slow after the system comes up and you use VNC to connect to it .. 
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> i haven't tried fully virtualized linux systems so far but i am going to do this soon ....
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>  Von: "Reuter, Jim" 
> Gesendet: 05.04.06 23:26:09
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> Betreff: [Fedora-xen] Anyone using VT-x (vmx, hvm, ...)?
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> Reposted from fedora-list
I did not even know fedora-xen existed until a coworker pointed it out, it's not listed on Fedora Portal.
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> I have not seen any answers for this on fedora-list.
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> From:   Reuter, Jim  
> Sent:   Wednesday, April 05, 2006 10:59 AM
> To:     'fedora-list at redhat.com'
> Subject:        Anyone using VT-x (vmx, hvm, ...)?
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> I've installed FC5 32 and 64 bit versions on a VT-x capable Xeon server.  I can install paravirtualized guests using /usr/sbin/xenguest-install.py per the quickstart guide with no problems.  But if I try to install a fully virtualized FC5 or Windows XP guest using the VT-x (vmx) capability and an ISO install image, xm shows that a guest started, but I can never connect to a console or vnc session to see what it is doing or go through the OS install.  Even the xenguest-install.py script fails at the point of trying to connect the console.
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> The error is "xenconsole: Could not read from tty store: No such file or directory".
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> I'm at a loss to know how to proceed or debug this.  Any help would be appreciated.  Is anyone even using FC5 on VT-x systems?  The lists seem to be very quiet on this topic.
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> Thanks,
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> James.reuter at hp.com
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