On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 23:10 +0200, Terje J. Hanssen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Quoting "Terje J. Hanssen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> My VT-enabled Dell Precision 490 Xeon workstation with 2GB RAM came > >> preinstalled with WinXP on the disk. I've installed SUSE with Xen server > >> as a > >> dualboot installation and wish now set up a VM to run WinXP full > >> virtualized. > > > > I see VT enabled so; > > > >> My question is: > >> Is it required to install WinXP (once more) from the install media, > >> which requires another 4GB disk space and additional user space? > >> Or, is it possible in some way to utilize the already preinstalled > >> WindXP, possibly how to do it? > > > > It is not required that you reinstall WinXP as you can boot from the > > raw block > > device with VT enabled Xen. > > > > For example; If your XP install is on the first partition of your IDE > > drive it > > would be /dev/hda1. > > > > Ryan > > Ryan, > > Thank you for your respons. > In my case WinXP is installed on /dev/sda2 mounted on /windows/C > > What I have tried in the meantime are the following steps: > > YaST2: Create Virtual Machine > * selected: I have a disk image with installed OS > and next selected: WinXP > Name of VM: set to WindowsXP > Kept: initial RAM for VM: 128 MB > maximum RAM: 1 GB > > Disk > Harddisks > Source: /windows/C/boot.ini
Wouldn't you use /dev/sda2 instead? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
