Mailing List Archive: Xen, vmware and XP/W2K3

Xen, vmware and XP/W2K3

Jun 27, 2005, 7:26 AM

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I haven't been through all the docs as yet, so bear with me..

AFAICT, MS OS's presently cannot be installed and run within an xen
environment. I guess it'll be possible sometime into the future.

Being able to run Linux and FreeBSD (and Solaris) is fine, but I need MS
too, so this is a problem for me when doing systems integration.

Is it possible to run vmware for XP and W2K3 on top of an xen setup?

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RE: Xen, vmware and XP/W2K3 [ In reply to ]

jhje at novonordisk

Jun 27, 2005, 7:24 AM

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> Is it possible to run vmware for XP and W2K3 on top of an xen setup?

VMware has kernel modules that must run in ring 0 (I know of vmnet and
vmmon), so as far as I have understood it, it is not possible. See also
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2005-05/msg00581.html
.

Running unmodified guests is (I think) a design goal of 3.x but it will
require hardware support (Vanderbilt CPUs). See also
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2005-06/msg00494.html
.

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Re: Xen, vmware and XP/W2K3 [ In reply to ]

monz at danbbs

Jun 27, 2005, 3:05 PM

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JHJE (Jan Holst Jensen) wrote:
>>Is it possible to run vmware for XP and W2K3 on top of an xen setup?
>
>
> VMware has kernel modules that must run in ring 0 (I know of vmnet and
> vmmon), so as far as I have understood it, it is not possible. See also
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2005-05/msg00581.html
> .
>
> Running unmodified guests is (I think) a design goal of 3.x but it will
> require hardware support (Vanderbilt CPUs). See also
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2005-06/msg00494.html

Yes, I'm well aware if the ringstructure in x86, and the possibilities
with Intel's Vanderbilt /AMD's Pacifica HW support.
I was too quick to ask without RTFM
Should've read about the roadmap WRT the HW virtualisetion support.

I'll have to use my testrig for running MS services within vmware until
v.3 comes out.

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