[CentOS-docs] new page? - Virtualization/Install MS Windows XP as a CentOS5/Xen guest

Fri Apr 17 17:44:31 UTC 2009
JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com>

On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 18:08 +0100, Lucian at lastdot.org wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:52 PM, JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 16:49 -0600, Ed Heron wrote:
> >> I don't see a How To, on this wiki, specifically designed to address the
> >> task of creating a Microsoft Windows XP virtual machine as a Xen guest under
> >> CentOS 5.  Many of the concepts are covered in
> >> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/InstallingHVMDomU, but it appears to leave
> >> some things to the reader.
> >>
> >>   I (EdHeron) would be willing to make the attempt at a page to focus on
> >> this task.  It could be HowTos/Xen/DomU-WinXP-Install.
> > ----
> > That really sounds interesting.. Are there still problems with Upgrading
> > Service Packs when running Windows as a Guest? I through out Xen because
> > of that reason. If problems still exist what's the work around involved
> > in doing it and is it worth it?
> >
> > JohnStanley
> 
> I had no such issue (upgraded xp sp2 to sp3).
> 
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This was in the early stages of Upstream and Xen. IE; it was a
nightmare. As in the release of version 5. Problem was after SP install
there was an issue rebooting the guest.