Kenneth Schneider wrote: > 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? >
If possible, I'll give it a try. I think there was a down arrow menu and then browsing in the file system. Terje -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
