Michael Hunter wrote: > On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:11:55 -0600 > Stuart Maybee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Not quite sure what you are asking here. If you want to use an existing >> partition on the disk to be the backing store when installing a Windows >> Virtual Machine then that is certainly supported. The docs should show >> you the syntax to set that up in the disk specification section when >> configuring the Virtual Machine. >> > > No. > > >> If you have an already installed >> instance of Windows that was installed on the metal and not under the >> hypervisor on a partition on your machine and want to run that under the >> hypervisor, then that is almost certainly not going to work due to the >> differences in the actual hardware that windows was configured and >> installed on and the Virtual Machine presented by the hypervisor. >> > > This is what I am interested in. I've pulled hard drives from machines > and moved them between different machines and booted windows so I don't > understand the issue in general. > > mph > > >> James Cornell wrote: >> >>> Michael Hunter wrote: >>> >>>> Is there a mechanism for running windows from an existing partition >>>> under Solaris? If so can somebody please point me at the right manual >>>> section or FAQ section that covers doing this. If not then why? >>>> >>>> TIA, >>>> mph >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> xen-discuss mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> >>>> >>> That would require access to the raw device through respective /dev/dsk >>> entries. I don't think you can currently use an existing disk, but you >>> can use a raw cdrom so it might be possible. Boris might know. >>> >>> James >>> _______________________________________________ >>> xen-discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> It's a windows issue. Try moving from one machine to another (Physical) you'll get a BSOD and it won't work. You could use it as a secondary under xVM and copy files off with another instance. If you went bare metal Linux (With proper kernel support) you could use it in xVM no problem. (As a HVM dom0)
James _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
