On Friday 16 November 2007 04:23:57 Vaibhav Kaushal wrote: > Well, how do I check that IN BIOS? Where are the options for it? > > And hey, thanks bryen! I got that thing working! Thanks a lot. > > > However I would like to have some comments / suggestions from your > side.
If you've managed to install Windows XP in a Xen environment then you've got the VT extensions on your processor and enabled in the BIOS. If they were disabled in the BIOS then you'd never have been able to install Windows XP in the first place. Networking within Xen for hardware assisted virtualistion (which is what you're doing with Windows XP in Xen) is _similar_ to that in VMware. There should be an emulated network card made available which typically uses the PCNet32 drivers (just like VMware without the VMware Tools installed). In your Windows XP Xen VM, is there no network device hardware present at all under device manager? The YaST/virt-install application for setting up the VM should have made a NIC available to the VM. It might be possible to double-check this via the virt-manager application. Failing that a look at the VM config file might be useful. It's not clear what you're using Windows XP in Xen for, but be aware video performance will be poor (you're essentially connecting via VNC to a very generic emulated video card), and disk I/O and network I/O are not great either. Disk and network I/O can be improved by using the para-virtual machine driver pack. This provides network and block device drivers that can take advantage of Xen's para-virtual interfaces. In this way, we don't modify the Windows kernel for Xen, but modify the drivers it uses for I/O. You should imply from this that the main use of Windows in a Xen environment is for servers rather than interactive user functionality. Regards, Jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
