Hi - has anyone gotten Xen on CentOS 4.7 to run successfully using Windows XP as the guest OS?
I tried VirtualBox but it doesn't appear to work (at least for Windows XP) for a CentOS 4.7 on a Dell Precision WorkStation 390 (quad.)
In fact, it pretty easy to crash the machine using the command line interface.
There's blurb on the wiki
Move a native CentOS4 installation into a Xen DomU
but that appears to be Xen running on CentOS 5 install of Xen.
I've installed the package kernel-xen.
I'm new to Xen and I'm not familiar with the jargon.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Agile Aspect wrote:
I'm new to Xen and I'm not familiar with the jargon.
Xen is a full hypervisor that boots in FIRST, then loads a supervisory master OS into "dom0", typically this is CentOS5 (or another late model linux distribution) which Xen is bundled with.... Then you can load other guest OS's into dom1, dom2, etc which are collectively known as domU (eg, U = 1,2,3...).
VirtualBox is a guest hypervisor that runs under a parent OS. If you couldn't get Virtualbox working, you might try VMware Server, I've had very good luck running this on CentOS 4, and hosting both linux and windows domains under it.
Note there are some constraints with all these virtualization systems... To run a 64 bit guest OS you need a processor that supports hardware virtualization assist, AMD-V or Intel VT. Early Opteron and Xeon 64bit CPUs didn't support this, later ones do.
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Agile Aspect agile.aspect@gmail.com wrote:
I'm new to Xen and I'm not familiar with the jargon.
I'll second John's suggestion to go with VMWare Server. Being also pretty new and noob to all these, my first attempt at running WinXP and Win2003 Server in VMWare server was almost plain sailing.
Xen on the other hand, well, let's just say I spent more time on it and that machine was re-installed with a non-Xen kernel. And that was on CentOS5 which supposedly works better with Xen. Maybe it's my noobness, but the same noob skill applied to VMWare worked fine so...
Given VMWare's long history, I think Xen probably just needs more time to all the details right.
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Agile Aspect -
John R Pierce -
Noob Centos Admin -
Ralph Angenendt