On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:33:13 +0000, "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > Mathew Brown wrote: > > Hi, > > I was considering installing a minimal Fedora 8 setup with the Xen > > kernel and then performing most of my work in several different DomUs > > (perhaps Fedora of Ubuntu) as well as running Windows in a VMware > > setup (don't currently have hardware virtualization support). Note > > that this is on a laptop. Are there any specific issues that I should > > be aware of (such as suspend/resume issues, etc.) and does anyone have > > any specific recommendations? Thank you for your help. > > Xen and laptops aren't really friends with each other. In particular > power management doesn't work so the laptop will run hot and eat > batteries, suspend/resume are unlikely to work, and so on. I remember on the Xen mailing list that they wanted to encourage people to start using Xen on laptops to help troubleshoot power management related issues. > Also it's difficult to mix different hypervisors. I don't think you can > run Xen & VMWare at the same time. > > Have you thought about using qemu instead? A QEmu guest is just an > ordinary Linux process, so much more predictable. It's a shame that > your laptop doesn't have HVM. What is the processor? I just rechecked. I have the HP nc6320 and just came across a post that says that they released a BIOS update to enable virtualization :) I hope to try it out. But even then, how stable is Windows under Xen (I plan on running a lot of appliactions and trying to port my current Windows setup + applications to it). I was planning on using P2V and make a VMware virtual machine image of my current setup and then use that under VMware. That would definitely be the easier approach. Also, Qemu is very very slow. VirtualBox is a better approach. However, neither VirtualBox or Qemu are really what I'm looking at (I've used both in the past). Thanks for your help. > Rich. > > -- > Emerging Technologies, Red Hat - http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/ > Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod > Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in > England and Wales under Company Registration No. 03798903 -- Mathew Brown mathewbrown@xxxxxxxxxxx -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
