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(a)redhat.com> said:
Mathew Brown wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:33:13 +0000, "Richard W.M. Jones"
> <rjones(a)redhat.com> 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.
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