Hi, great to hear. The machine I tested this on did not have hardware virtualization support and I think about 1 - 1 1/2 years went down since I've tested this scenario.
I will definitely give it a shot the moment I own a HVM capable notebook, since I'm heavily tied to vmware from work, but love XEN in my spare time ;-)) -- Mr. Olli Am Montag, den 09.02.2009, 13:28 -0800 schrieb Kip Macy: > Running Xen under vmware works fine (albeit slowly, and periodically > exposing bugs in vmware) - I've done it many times. You're likely to > run in to problems on less mature platforms that rely on hardware > virtualization. However, there is no fundamental reason that > paravirtualized guests should not work there. > > Cheers, > Kip > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Mister Olli <mister.o...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > from what I can tell this is impossible since XEN needs to have access > > to ring0 of the CPU which has the highest priviledge level. And there > > can only be one kernel at a time. > > > > I know that with VMware there's a thing like VMware ESX server in VMware > > workstation (combination could be slightly different ;-)) possible. > > > > I don't know that much about the XEN internas to say if it's possible to > > modify XEN, so that something similar is possible. > > > > I once tried building a XEN dom0 kernel under VMware workstation 6.0 but > > the building process itself failed with some errors on APIC. > > > > -- > > Mr. Olli > > > > > > Am Montag, den 09.02.2009, 20:39 +0100 schrieb Julian Stecklina: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I am trying to build a kvm (or VirtualBox) virtual machine to painlessly > >> experiment with Xen on my 32-bit Linux laptop (Core Duo L2400 with > >> hardware virtualization foo) or my 64-bit Linux desktop box (Phenom > >> 8450). So far neither of the two manage to run Xen with either of the > >> above mentioned VMMs. Has someone already done this or am I out of luck > >> and have to get a real test box? > >> > >> Regards, > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"