On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 09:24:41PM +0200, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: > On 01/25/2010 07:28 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 09:03:58PM -0500, Ryan Pugatch wrote: > > > >> Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Also many people are running Windows 2003 VMs on Xen without problems. > >>> > >>> -- Pasi > >>> > >>> > >> My patch management and antivirus console machine is a Xen virtualized > >> Windows 2008 machine that doesn't have problems. I even moved an XP VM > >> over to the same server as that machine just to see what happens. The > >> XP machine still performed poorly. > >> > >> > > > > Ok. The next thing to try would be to update to gitco Xen 3.4.2 rpms, > > but I guess you switched to ESXi already :) > For what is worth, I had several problems with the gitco packages: > - in xen-3.3 .0 , Java starting to consume all the processing power ( > the same VM with stock xen from Centos 5.2 was fine in this aspect; see > my thread started at > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/2009-February/000836.html ) > - with xen-3.4.1 and 3.4.2 from gitco, an XP HVM failed to start, > despite working perfectly with stock Centos 5.4 > Ok. Did you check "xm log" for more information about the XP problem? -- Pasi