Kenneth Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 23:10 +0200, Terje J. Hanssen wrote:
rkather@missionpenguin.com wrote:
Quoting "Terje J. Hanssen"
: 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?
If possible, I'll give it a try. I think there was a down arrow menu and then browsing in the file system. Terje -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org