Dear Kenneth, just (hopefully) a caution on deleting the NFS Partition if you feel you no longer want/need it.
As you know Dell is infamous in using propitiatory hardware elements that require you to install certain driver from the Utils CD. For example, I had to format my Dell Desktop, however in order to get M$ windows to function I had to load from the Dell Utils CD, 1. A chipset driver 2. A sound card driver 3. A video driver 4. A NIC driver none of which came on the Windows XP CD. I could not believe I could not format the HDD put the Windows XP Cd in and I would be left with a functional system - Not so. Because Dell don't publish their drivers to anyone I had to use and install drivers for the above from their utils CD. I did not even have a functioning NIC card at the end of a standard Windows XP install. Before either removing the NTFS Partition or running it as a VM - just check that the components of your Dell don't require you to do too much loading of proprietary device drivers. I am sorry I cannot answer your VM question. I hope the above does help a little in planning in the future for major changes. Scott Kenneth Schneider wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 23:10 +0200, Terje J. Hanssen wrote: > >> [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 >> > > Wouldn't you use /dev/sda2 instead? > >
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