Re: [CentOS] xen on CentOS 4.7

2009-02-26 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Agile Aspect wrote: Hi - has anyone gotten Xen on CentOS 4.7 to run successfully using Windows XP as the guest OS? Xen cannot be run as a host domain (dom0) on CentOS 4.x, but only as a guest domain. You'd need CentOS 5 as a host. Ralph pgpchDjNn2gXZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

[CentOS] xen on CentOS 4.7

2009-02-25 Thread Agile Aspect
Hi - has anyone gotten Xen on CentOS 4.7 to run successfully using Windows XP as the guest OS? I tried VirtualBox but it doesn't appear to work (at least for Windows XP) for a CentOS 4.7 on a Dell Precision WorkStation 390 (quad.) In fact, it pretty easy to crash the machine using the command

Re: [CentOS] xen on CentOS 4.7

2009-02-25 Thread John R Pierce
Agile Aspect wrote: I'm new to Xen and I'm not familiar with the jargon. Xen is a full hypervisor that boots in FIRST, then loads a supervisory master OS into dom0, typically this is CentOS5 (or another late model linux distribution) which Xen is bundled with Then you can load other

Re: [CentOS] xen on CentOS 4.7

2009-02-25 Thread Noob Centos Admin
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Agile Aspect agile.asp...@gmail.com wrote: I'm new to Xen and I'm not familiar with the jargon. I'll second John's suggestion to go with VMWare Server. Being also pretty new and noob to all these, my first attempt at running WinXP and Win2003 Server in VMWare