Comments on: Convert an existing Windows installation to a Xen guest http://www.brandonturner.net/blog/2010/01/convert-windows-to-xen-guest/ Random thoughts on web applications, software development and Linux Sun, 05 Sep 2010 05:30:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Brandon http://www.brandonturner.net/blog/2010/01/convert-windows-to-xen-guest/comment-page-1/#comment-7151 Brandon Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:17:55 +0000 http://www.brandonturner.net/blog/?p=524#comment-7151 <a href="#comment-7150" rel="nofollow">@Oliver Smith</a> What kind of errors do you get when trying to boot Win7 as a domU? I've got a Win7 domU running fine on my end, however I installed it from scratch rather than converting an existing installation as I describe in this post. @Oliver Smith
What kind of errors do you get when trying to boot Win7 as a domU? I’ve got a Win7 domU running fine on my end, however I installed it from scratch rather than converting an existing installation as I describe in this post.

]]> By: Oliver Smith http://www.brandonturner.net/blog/2010/01/convert-windows-to-xen-guest/comment-page-1/#comment-7150 Oliver Smith Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:09:35 +0000 http://www.brandonturner.net/blog/?p=524#comment-7150 I'm adding an SSD to an i7/Win7 machine, as a worst-case scenario to dual boot Ubuntu off the SSD and leave Windows on the hard drive. Then when I need to do stuff in Visual Studio with our game client, I'll just reboot and run Ubuntu in a VMware box. But given that the machine is an i7 with 6Gb of RAM, it seems a real shame not to be able to exercise those cores by running both OSes at once. I finally realized that Ubuntu doesn't particularly want to be a Xen host, and after discovering the Xen Live CD I started looking at Debian for the dom0. But I just can't seem to get it to boot the Windows 7 guest off there on it's own drive - I couldn't get it Xen Live to boot the Ubuntu guest currently sitting on the SATA drive, but I suspect that's because it doesn't have the right kernel installed :) I’m adding an SSD to an i7/Win7 machine, as a worst-case scenario to dual boot Ubuntu off the SSD and leave Windows on the hard drive. Then when I need to do stuff in Visual Studio with our game client, I’ll just reboot and run Ubuntu in a VMware box.

But given that the machine is an i7 with 6Gb of RAM, it seems a real shame not to be able to exercise those cores by running both OSes at once.

I finally realized that Ubuntu doesn’t particularly want to be a Xen host, and after discovering the Xen Live CD I started looking at Debian for the dom0. But I just can’t seem to get it to boot the Windows 7 guest off there on it’s own drive – I couldn’t get it Xen Live to boot the Ubuntu guest currently sitting on the SATA drive, but I suspect that’s because it doesn’t have the right kernel installed :)

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