[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Quoting "Terje J. Hanssen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> 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
/var/lib/xen/images/windowsXP/disk0
size reduced to: 1 GB
Then an Alert arised with the Error message: "A valid boot image was not
found"
........ here I didn't come further and had to break from this point.
Is there possibly some wrong input above; i.e. the "boot.ini" or other
things.
What about disk size 1 GB?
Thanks,
Terje J. Hanssen
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