On 08/03/2010 12:20 PM, Chuck Davis wrote:

I'm entirely new to virtualization. Xen install on 11.3 does not appear to work. I bought a couple of books but haven't figured out what to do yet since openSuse does not appear to do a complete install.

I want to run 11.3 and windows 7 on the same machine (windows is required at work).

This should work with Xen. However, you might find using VirtualBox a bit easier.

In the "Book of Xen" the author installs CentOS, then Xen, then a virtualized version of CentOS. Does one need to install the Xen host (in this case openSuse 11.3) again as a virtual machine? If so, why does openSuse not have the defaults required to do so? It selects one of the defined repositories but the install will not happen because defaults are incorrect. Is there a way to successfully install openSuse on itself again?

There certainly is. First you will need to have a host, aka dom0. So on your machine you want to fist complete a regular install of openSUSE 11.3. Once this is complete in the software manager install the kernel-xen package. Alternatively in YaST you can simply select "Install Hypervisor an Tools". This will install everything you need. When everything is installed you will need to reboot the machine and select the Xen kernel in the grub menu. Now you have your hypervisor, or dom0 running. With virtmanager you can now create virtual machines and pretty much install most OSs.

When I try to install windows it gets nearly finished then craps out because it can't find a virtual interface. It appears when I install Xen that the bridge is created but obviously windows can't find it and neither can I access the network from host openSuse anymore; get an error "Network unreachable".

This is most likely due to the fact that no virtual network device is configured in the VM.

Is it possible to get this combination to work? I'd like to have both environments running on my desktop.

Thanks for any assistance or a pointer to a document explaining how to do it.

The xen-doc-{html,pdf} package should have the information you need to know to get things working, including networking etc. This may also be helpful: http://www.novell.com/documentation/vmserver/ HTH, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU Software Engineer Consultant LINUX rschweikert@novell.com 781-464-8147 Novell Making IT Work As One -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org