Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3464 mails)

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Dear Kenneth, just (hopefully) a caution on deleting the NFS Partition
if you feel you no longer want/need it.

As you know Dell is infamous in  using propitiatory hardware elements
that require you to install certain driver from the Utils CD.

For example, I had to format my Dell Desktop, however in order to get M$
windows to function I had to load from the Dell Utils CD,
1. A chipset driver
2. A sound card driver
3. A video driver
4. A NIC driver
none of which came on the Windows XP CD. I could not believe I could not
format the HDD put the Windows XP Cd in and I would be left with a
functional system - Not so. Because Dell don't publish their drivers to
anyone I had to use and install drivers for the above from their utils CD.
I did not even have a functioning NIC card at the end of a standard
Windows XP install.
Before either removing the NTFS Partition or running it as a VM - just
check that the components of your Dell don't require you to do too much
loading of proprietary device drivers.
I am sorry I cannot answer your VM question. I hope the above does help
a little in planning in the future for major changes.

Scott



Kenneth Schneider wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 23:10 +0200, Terje J. Hanssen wrote:
>   
>> rkather@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>     
>>> Quoting "Terje J. Hanssen" <nteknikk@xxxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> My VT-enabled Dell Precision 490 Xeon workstation with 2GB RAM came
>>>> preinstalled with WinXP on the disk. I've installed SUSE with Xen server
>>>> as a
>>>> dualboot installation and wish now set up a VM to run WinXP full
>>>> virtualized.
>>>>         
>>> I see VT enabled so;
>>>
>>>       
>>>> My question is:
>>>> Is it required to install WinXP (once more) from the install media,
>>>> which requires another 4GB disk space and additional user space?
>>>> Or, is it possible in some way to utilize the already preinstalled
>>>> WindXP, possibly how to do it?
>>>>         
>>> It is not required that you reinstall WinXP as you can boot from the
>>> raw block
>>> device with VT enabled Xen.
>>>
>>> For example; If your XP install is on the first partition of your IDE
>>> drive it
>>> would be /dev/hda1.
>>>
>>> Ryan
>>>       
>> Ryan,
>>
>> Thank you for your respons.
>> In my case WinXP is installed on /dev/sda2 mounted on /windows/C
>>
>> What I have tried in the meantime are the following steps:
>>
>> YaST2: Create Virtual Machine
>> * selected: I have a disk image with installed OS
>>  and next selected: WinXP
>> Name of VM: set to WindowsXP
>> Kept: initial RAM for VM: 128 MB
>>       maximum RAM:        1 GB
>>
>> Disk > Harddisks
>> Source: /windows/C/boot.ini
>>     
>
> Wouldn't you use /dev/sda2 instead?
>
>