zuzu on 3 Oct 2007 23:08:01 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Xen, kqemu, linux and other guests, virtualization

  • From: zuzu <sean.zuzu@gmail.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [PLUG] Xen, kqemu, linux and other guests, virtualization
  • Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 19:07:52 -0400
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On 10/3/07, jeff <jeffv@op.net> wrote:
> zuzu wrote:
> > 1.) anyone have experience with Xen?
>
> Not one, sorry.  Just dl'd KVM but haven't started it up yet.
>
>
> > a.) using Linux as a thin host for a fullscreen (without X11) guest
> > image of WinXP?
>
> Wouldn't it want the GUI?  I just tried it from fullscreen and it said
> it couldn't open the GTK display.

to display WinXP?

I don't see why it's necessary.  years ago when I used MOL (Mac On
Linux) I ran it on DirectFB, but I'm not sure what kqemu expects...
perhaps kqemu can be built without depending on GTK?  (I'll check a
Gentoo box later for the USE flags for this...)

> I run Xubuntu in VMplayer under XP, as well as XP in VMplayer under
> Xubuntu (mostly the latter).  Both work flawlessly.  Recently did W2003
> Server under Ubuntu Server/VMServer (pokey, as you'd expect).

yeah, my "user story" is for someone who wants to run WinXP SP2, but I
want to be able to fall back to a Linux host to do stuff like firewall
and making backups of the disk image for when Windows gets wonky
without reinstalling.  for this I wish I could just use Xen but this
is on a laptop that doesn't support VT-x instruction.

(the Xen questions are for a different scenario of an upcoming MacBook
Pro, and the C2D does support VT-x.)

> > b.) how about on a laptop with ACPI / APM / whatever the hell sleep
> > and hibernate are called now?
>
> haven't spent any time on it, but they didn't work out of the box on my
> Dell Latitude D820.  There are supposed to be fixes.

hehe, right.
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