fyi: paravirtualized means the OS is new enough to have extensions to be virtualization-aware and support it in order to not have to emulate all of the hardware completely. The older OS would probably run fully virtualized, i.e. in a QEMU environment. Michael Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Using CentOS 5.1 with Xen 3.2. > I'm trying to install a fully virtualized system for the first time and > doing this with an old Suse 9.0 (this probably would run paravirtualized, > maybe it won't run, anyway, because of hardware problems). > I start with virt-manager and after choosing "fully virtualized" it > presents me two options for install media: iso image and CD-ROM or DVD, > but the latter is grayed out. I have the install source on CDs ... Is this > normal or do I yet need another patch to make it work in xen 3.2? > > Kai > >