Re: Virtualisation / Xen with home-compiled kernel on sid?
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 5:44 PM, MRH<misiek_spam@o2.pl> wrote:
> Recently I decided to play a bit with MS Windows 7RC on my PC. My main OS at
> home is Debian sid which I really like and it is a bit bothersome to reboot
> each time I want to check something on MSWin, I thought about using
> virtualisation.
>
> First I thought about Xen or KVM. I'm a total novice at these things, so
> it's difficult to decide. What I want is to preserve the system I use
> (Debian sid amd64), allow starting another one (in a window ?). Ideally I'd
> like to have Debian as a default system, possibility to dual-boot Windows (I
> installed MSWin on another hard drive) and use/run that installed MSWin from
> Debian. Hope it makes sense.
>
> Yesterday I tried to install Xen, but it didn't work (in the way I
> expected). I installed xen-tools + some more xen packages. Nothing happened.
> Then I installed xen hypervisor. Nothing again. Only after I also installed
> xen kernel / modules it added xen to grub and almost started (almost, as I
> use nvidia proprietary driver, so X did not start).
>
> When I tried to modify grub's menu.lst to add xen startig my (home-compiled)
> kernel it did not boot (I've got Panic on CPU0 / Could not set up DOM0 guest
> OS ) message.
>
> I googled out a number of a bit outdated howtos, some showing how to compile
> xen 3.0 on etch, some explaining how to install xen packages and use disk
> image to add another system.
>
> So couple of questions then:
> 1) Is Xen a way to go?
> 2) If so, how can I use the existing kernel? Do I need to compile xen too?
> 3) What to start with?
>
> Help, please!
> Kind regards,
> Michal
> --
> Michal R. Hoffmann
>
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I don't know if you checked this site:
http://www.howtoforge.com/howtos/virtualization
but it has nice how to's regarding virtualization using Xen and KVM.
you can also test out virtualbox or vmware server, they are "free".
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