Terje, On Saturday 23 April 2005 16:42, Terje J. Hanssen wrote:
I have just installed Suse 9.3 Pro which includes x86 Xen 2.0, while Yast2 contains a tool for "Installation into Directory for XEN". What I wonder is if Suse 9.3 with Xen can act as a virtual host for a Windows guest OS, in a similar way like VMWare provides?
Nope. Not, at least, for you or me. Xen does not provide 100% transparent virtual machine emulation. The Intel architecture was not explicitly designed to allow it, and it is not possible to do it without some significant performance penalties. Xen makes some demands of the software that will run in the virtualized environment. That's feasible for an open-source OS such as Linux or FreeBSD, but for a closed-source operating system, only the vendor (or someone given the source by the vendor) can introduce the necessary modifications. Apparently it has been done by the original Xen designers at Cambridge in England, but the terms of the license under which they acquired the Windows source used to make the Xen adaptation prohibits them from releasing or distributing it in any way, whether in binary or source form. If you want to learn more, go to the horse's mouth: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/index.html.
Possibly, how to install and setup this environment?
Regards, Terje J. Hanssen
Randall Schulz