[CentOS] Window Server 2003 will not run as paravirtualized?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Jul 8 23:03:36 UTC 2009


Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>> AFAIK you can only run any windows version in paravirtualized mode
>> only in vmware server, not in Xen or KVM which are the virtualization
>> technologies CentOS supports.
> 
> No. Vmware is no different than Xen or any other in this respect, they
> also don't have access to the source and therefore cannot provide a modified
> version of the OS.

But Vmware and I think Virtualbox are capable of running unmodified 
Windows guests even on CPU's lacking the vt capability.   I don't think 
Xen can do that.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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