[Fedora-xen] Fedora, xen and Windoze

[Christian Schuermann]

Tomas Kouba schrieb:
> Christian Schuermann wrote:
>> Andrew Cathrow schrieb:
>>> This is one of those areas where your mileage may vary ...
>>>
>>> I recently installed XP in FC5 ( 2.6.17-1.2157 kernel). For reasons I 
>>> don't quite understand the regular XP cd didn't work - it hung early 
>>> on but the XP-with-sp2 cd worked like a charm.
>>
>> I've tried Win2k/XP/2k3 now. Different CDs or from images.
>>
>>> See the following link for some more advice
>>> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2006-06/msg00452.html
>>
>> That's actually the same I did (besides the F5-Hint but it didn't work 
>> either)
>>
>> So now I'm sittin here with a brand new AMD Box and there is nothing 
>> to do but wait :(
> 
> Hi,
> I didn't follow the discussion from the beginning but have you tried to 
> install WinXP in qemu and then use it in Xen?
> I had some "stucking" problem with win installation too but in qemu it 
> worked well and now I use it in Xen (btw. 10times faster according to 
> SiSoft Sandra benchmark).

Man, you definitely made my day! It works!

Thanks a lot,

Chris