Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:28:36 -0800 From: Kip Macy <kmacy@freebsd.org> To: mister.olli@googlemail.com Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org, Julian Stecklina <js@alien8.de> Subject: Re: Xen in Virtual Machine? Message-ID: <3c1674c90902091328t45ce61b4q96fff69b52101a65@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1234213751.28262.3.camel@phoenix.blechhirn.net> References: <87d4drxuvn.fsf@tabernacle.localnet> <1234213751.28262.3.camel@phoenix.blechhirn.net>
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Running Xen under vmware works fine (albeit slowly, and periodically exposing bugs in vmware) - I've done it many times. You're likely to run in to problems on less mature platforms that rely on hardware virtualization. However, there is no fundamental reason that paravirtualized guests should not work there. Cheers, Kip On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Mister Olli <mister.olli@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > from what I can tell this is impossible since XEN needs to have access > to ring0 of the CPU which has the highest priviledge level. And there > can only be one kernel at a time. > > I know that with VMware there's a thing like VMware ESX server in VMware > workstation (combination could be slightly different ;-)) possible. > > I don't know that much about the XEN internas to say if it's possible to > modify XEN, so that something similar is possible. > > I once tried building a XEN dom0 kernel under VMware workstation 6.0 but > the building process itself failed with some errors on APIC. > > -- > Mr. Olli > > > Am Montag, den 09.02.2009, 20:39 +0100 schrieb Julian Stecklina: >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to build a kvm (or VirtualBox) virtual machine to painlessly >> experiment with Xen on my 32-bit Linux laptop (Core Duo L2400 with >> hardware virtualization foo) or my 64-bit Linux desktop box (Phenom >> 8450). So far neither of the two manage to run Xen with either of the >> above mentioned VMMs. Has someone already done this or am I out of luck >> and have to get a real test box? >> >> Regards, > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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