Thanks, good to know about this capability of Windows. I readily confess to knowing very little about Windows outside of being able to manage to install a PC from time to time. Perhaps Micheal can try this and report back on whether it was successful or not.
Attila Nagy wrote: > WAITwaitwait!! > > Simply create a new windows hw profile (System properties -> hw profiles -> > copy ( -> rename)) > ...and when the existing (physical) windows boots off from its own partition > (I mean under Xen), it will ask, which hw profile you want to start. > Choose whichever you want to run under Xen, and it will detect all the new > devices, and you'll have all your programs, settings, desktop, etc. as you > have it on bare metal. > You can even have different screen resolution for example! > I renamed one of the profiles to xVM, and I set the startup delay to 3 secs, > and choose the default to be the "Bare metal" conf. > If I start xp on its own, there's only a 3 secs delay in the boot process, if > I start it from SXCE, I sit there and 3 secs are enough to choose. > > It works flawlessly on my box (Asus barebone, Q6600, 4G RAM)! > (well, it doesn't on my other box; but that's another story :) ) > > regards > A > > Message was edited by: > aspirin > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > xen-discuss mailing list > [email protected] _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
