Hi list, I just found a package in YaST "xen-tools-ioemu" (x86). In the description is written: You need virtualization support in hardware to make use of this. What kind of hardware support do I exactly need? -- mdc
meister@netz00.com wrote:
Hi list,
I just found a package in YaST "xen-tools-ioemu" (x86). In the description is written: You need virtualization support in hardware to make use of this. What kind of hardware support do I exactly need?
I too am interested in this; I've currently tried wine, vmware and qemu, and would be very interested in something that's faster than qemu and cheaper than vmware. Sadly, I have to run the BMC/Remedy/ARuser crap at work, as well as test websites using IE ;-( Paul
Paul Mansfield wrote:
Sadly, I have to run the BMC/Remedy/ARuser crap at work, as well as test websites using IE ;-(
if you don"t have to really work on windows, the best way is to have a windows computer next to you. any old one can do the trick. jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.net http://arvamip.free.fr
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 02:39:51PM +0100, Paul Mansfield wrote:
meister@netz00.com wrote:
Hi list,
I just found a package in YaST "xen-tools-ioemu" (x86). In the description is written: You need virtualization support in hardware to make use of this. What kind of hardware support do I exactly need?
I too am interested in this; I've currently tried wine, vmware and qemu, and would be very interested in something that's faster than qemu and cheaper than vmware.
Sadly, I have to run the BMC/Remedy/ARuser crap at work, as well as test websites using IE ;-(
Remedy works fine using crossover 4.0 :)) -- Richard
Am Dienstag, 13. September 2005 15:39 schrieb Paul Mansfield:
meister@netz00.com wrote:
What kind of hardware support do I exactly need?
Hi Paul, xen works (at least on 9.3). I am just configuring it on 10.0 RC1 and I fond some problems: - support for serial console seems to be broken: it shows the boot process of xen and a part of the dom0 boot, but stops at Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI init p if I shut down dom0 the rest of the messages from booting are written on console. So I think it stops on some kind of buffering. - SuSE created a symlink "/boot/xen.gz" that points to "/boot/xen-3.0.gz" that itself is a symlink to "/boot/xen-3.0_6610-2.gz". And grub fails to resolve the double symlinked file. If you use "kernel (hd0,5)/boot/xen.gz ..." grub says: file not found. if you use "kernel (hd0,5)/boot/xen-3.0.gz ..." it works. BTW: on beta3/4 the linear interrupt mapping works out-of-the-box, in RC1 I had to put "apic acpi" on the kernel command line, to make it work. Still working on it... -- mdc
Am Tuesday 13 September 2005 15:28 schrieb meister@netz00.com:
Hi list,
I just found a package in YaST "xen-tools-ioemu" (x86). In the description is written: You need virtualization support in hardware to make use of this. What kind of hardware support do I exactly need?
I guess a new cpu with vanderpool(intel) or pacifica(AMD) support. Latest P4 versions support already vanderpool afaik, i'm not sure about AMD. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanderpool -- with kind regards, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Lasarsch, Subsystems SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nuremberg martin.lasarsch@suse.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- simply change to www.suse.de
Am Mittwoch, 14. September 2005 12:21 schrieb Martin Lasarsch:
Am Tuesday 13 September 2005 15:28 schrieb meister@netz00.com:
I just found a package in YaST "xen-tools-ioemu" (x86). In the description is written: You need virtualization support in hardware to make use of this. What kind of hardware support do I exactly need? I guess a new cpu with vanderpool(intel) or pacifica(AMD) support.
Hi Martin, thanks for the info!
Latest P4 versions support already vanderpool afaik, i'm not sure about AMD.
I have no idea and I can't try it, because I do not own such a cpu. And as an unemployed computer freak I can not affort such expensive hardware :-( -- mdc
Hi Am Wednesday 14 September 2005 23:15 schrieb meister@netz00.com:
Am Mittwoch, 14. September 2005 12:21 schrieb Martin Lasarsch:
Am Tuesday 13 September 2005 15:28 schrieb meister@netz00.com:
I just found a package in YaST "xen-tools-ioemu" (x86). In the description is written: You need virtualization support in hardware to make use of this. What kind of hardware support do I exactly need?
I guess a new cpu with vanderpool(intel) or pacifica(AMD) support.
Hi Martin,
thanks for the info!
Latest P4 versions support already vanderpool afaik, i'm not sure about AMD.
I have no idea and I can't try it, because I do not own such a cpu. And as an unemployed computer freak I can not affort such expensive hardware :-(
You only need this if you want to run an OS without XEN Support as guest. Means Windows or other closed source, non patched OS. Of course you can use XEN to install and run Linux, NetBSD and maybe some other OS which are already patched. The rpm is only for unpatched OS afaik. -- with kind regards, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Lasarsch, Subsystems SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nuremberg martin.lasarsch@suse.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- simply change to www.suse.de
Am Donnerstag, 15. September 2005 13:54 schrieb Martin Lasarsch:
Am Wednesday 14 September 2005 23:15 schrieb meister@netz00.com:
Am Mittwoch, 14. September 2005 12:21 schrieb Martin Lasarsch:
Am Tuesday 13 September 2005 15:28 schrieb meister@netz00.com:
I just found a package in YaST "xen-tools-ioemu" (x86). In the description is written: You need virtualization support in hardware to make use of this. What kind of hardware support do I exactly need? I guess a new cpu with vanderpool(intel) or pacifica(AMD) support. Latest P4 versions support already vanderpool afaik, i'm not sure about AMD. You only need this if you want to run an OS without XEN Support as guest. Means Windows or other closed source, non patched OS. Of course you can use XEN to install and run Linux, NetBSD and maybe some other OS which are already patched. The rpm is only for unpatched OS afaik.
these are the last lines of xm dmesg: (XEN) Scrubbing Free RAM: ......done. (XEN) *** Serial input -> DOM0 (type 'CTRL-a' three times to switch input to Xen). (XEN) (file=/usr/src/packages/BUILD/xen-unstable/xen/include/asm/mm.h, line=291) Error pfn 100: rd=ffbfa080, od=00000000, caf=00000000, taf=00000000 at this point my serial console stops working and in my process list I see: 5726 ? D< 0:00 [kxbwatch] 5730 ? Z 0:00 [network-bridge] <defunct> It is x86. Xen2 on 9.3 in another partition works fine. Nothing changes if I change the boot params in menu.lst. Any hints? -- mdc
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