Re: windows in xen on intel core-duo?
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:24:44 -0400
matt.price@utoronto.ca wrote:
hi,
a quick answer, FWIW,
> I've just bought a new dell latitude d820, which is lovely.
congrats ! :)
> It came with windows pre-installed,
(i'm glad i always buy computer-pieces and build my own,
not paying the M$-tax :-)
> and I thught that this time
> (since I have a huge hard drive) I might leave it installed in a
> shrunken-down partition. What I'm wondering is whether I can get
> windows to run from inside linux somehow, using qemu, vmware, or
> xen. the latitude d820 has an intel core-duo processor, so as I
> understand it some hardware virtualization is possible -- that is, it
> may be possible to run windows under xen. but I haven't seen any
> howtos on this process, and I wondered whether anyone had tried it or
> seen a useful link somewhere.
qemu ? yes, but not raw, you need a disc-image
vmware ? probably..
xen ? no, there were license-issues with M$-Windows & xen
HTH
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