Hi Richard, Just out of curiosity. How is running VMware different from running Qemu with kqemu? From my understanding, both of them rely on a kernel driver (or more than one) and a process running. So why shouldn't running vmware server under a Xen Dom0 works? Thanks for your help. On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:21:21 +0000, "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > Mathew Brown wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:33:13 +0000, "Richard W.M. Jones" > > <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > >> 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 :) > > This isn't uncommon. Most BIOSes disable virtualization at boot time by > writing to a processor-specific register (which, on Intel, cannot be > unset without booting). This is a security feature to stop a particular > form of near undetectable rootkit. So you need BIOS support and this is > commonly supplied through BIOS upgrades - eg. Lenovo did this for the > Thinkpad models which support HVM. > > > hope to try it out. But even then, how stable is Windows under Xen (I > > Xen upstream certainly support Windows under Xen. Of course you > absolutely do need hardware virt support in your processor. It may not > surprise you to know that we don't use very much Windows round here, so > I can't personally comment on how well it works. > > 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 - A fast, anti-spam email service. -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
