I want to use Centos5 as my host os and virtualize a windows server on it. My question is..do i have to be at the machine to setup the windows server inside the virtual server since windows 2k3 is gui based or can i do this remotely somehow?
On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 08:55:34AM -0400, William Warren wrote:
I want to use Centos5 as my host os and virtualize a windows server on it. My question is..do i have to be at the machine to setup the windows server inside the virtual server since windows 2k3 is gui based or can i do this remotely somehow?
If you install VMware Server, you can install remotely since all console access to the VMs is done through the Console application. This is how I did my Windows XP installation.
I can't speak to Xen.
On 07/07/2007, at 10:55 PM, William Warren wrote:
I want to use Centos5 as my host os and virtualize a windows server on it. My question is..do i have to be at the machine to setup the windows server inside the virtual server since windows 2k3 is gui based or can i do this remotely somehow?
With Xen, you can use VNC as a graphics display. You will need to make sure you have the correct hardware, as it requires a certain CPU capability to virtualise Windows on Linux using Xen.... I think it's HVM?
Google should be able to help you out here.
-- Steven Haigh
Email: netwiz@crc.id.au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9017 0597 - 0404 087 474
On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 08:55 -0400, William Warren wrote:
I want to use Centos5 as my host os and virtualize a windows server on it. My question is..do i have to be at the machine to setup the windows server inside the virtual server since windows 2k3 is gui based or can i do this remotely somehow?
I assume you're talking about Xen virtualization ? (someone already pointed you to vmware server as well). It's not necessary to be on the console to install a windows DomU in Xen ... you can use ssh with X forwarding to launch virt-manager and grab the VirtualFrameBuffer console (either from virt-manager or directly with vnc). Don't forget to consult the wiki page about windows on Xen : http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/InstallingHVMDomU BTW : don't forget also that, at this time, windows performances on xen are *really* bad in comparison with the same windows on vmware server (no windows drivers available for xen guests , but vmware service tools, aka drivers, available for Vmware guests.) And you need also a processor with VT (Intel) or V-Pacifica (AMD) to support full-virtualization on Xen ....
On 08/07/2007, at 4:34 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 08:55 -0400, William Warren wrote:
I want to use Centos5 as my host os and virtualize a windows server on it. My question is..do i have to be at the machine to setup the windows server inside the virtual server since windows 2k3 is gui based or can i do this remotely somehow?
I assume you're talking about Xen virtualization ? (someone already pointed you to vmware server as well). It's not necessary to be on the console to install a windows DomU in Xen ... you can use ssh with X forwarding to launch virt-manager and grab the VirtualFrameBuffer console (either from virt-manager or directly with vnc). Don't forget to consult the wiki page about windows on Xen : http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/InstallingHVMDomU BTW : don't forget also that, at this time, windows performances on xen are *really* bad in comparison with the same windows on vmware server (no windows drivers available for xen guests , but vmware service tools, aka drivers, available for Vmware guests.)
There are drivers available for Windows, but you'll need to purchase the commercial version of Xen to get these....
And you need also a processor with VT (Intel) or V-Pacifica (AMD) to support full-virtualization on Xen ....
Ahhh VT - that's the one :)
-- Steven Haigh
Email: netwiz@crc.id.au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9017 0597 - 0404 087 474
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