Todd wrote:
> I have a laptop that dual boots Open Suse and XP. I would much rather
> just be able to open XP in a "virtual" world to run the few
> applications that wine doesn't play well with. Can Xen be configured
> to do this without wiping out the XP partition? Or perhaps I can make
> the virtual file system and "restore" the old windows stuff to it from
> a back up?
Does your laptop have an Intel core duo chipset with VT, or some new
chip from AMD with Pacifica (that I'm not aware of as shipping yet?)
If not, the only way to run Windows under Xen is to use an emulator like
QEMU (without the speedups of kqemu or qvm86 as they can't run ring0
under the hypervisor), which is _much_ slower than something like VMWare
(which also cannot run under Xen, as vmmon would need to run ring0 under
the hypervisor).
Why not just use VMWare under SuSE to run XP, or the other way around if
you _must_ run XP native you can still run SuSE under VMWare.
There are many virtualized environments out there, but when you want to
run Windows at (near) native speeds under Linux you're somewhat limited.
VMWare or QEMU are among your best bets.
Xen isn't the best idea for a laptop, btw, as the suspend/resume cycle
(ACPI or APM) is pretty much demolished by the hypervisor.
I'm personally rather happy with an Ubuntu x86_64 laptop, VMWare, and
OpenVZ. IMHO, it's the best of all worlds (without VT/Pacifica), at the
moment.
Would anyone else like to talk more at length about this topic.
Virtualization/Paravirtualization is a hobby of mine.
- Ian C. Blenke <ian@blenke.com> http://ian.blenke.com/
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