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