Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:04:56 +0100 From: Mister Olli <mister.olli@googlemail.com> To: Kip Macy <kmacy@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org, Julian Stecklina <js@alien8.de> Subject: Re: Xen in Virtual Machine? Message-ID: <1234217096.28262.8.camel@phoenix.blechhirn.net> In-Reply-To: <3c1674c90902091328t45ce61b4q96fff69b52101a65@mail.gmail.com> References: <87d4drxuvn.fsf@tabernacle.localnet> <1234213751.28262.3.camel@phoenix.blechhirn.net> <3c1674c90902091328t45ce61b4q96fff69b52101a65@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, great to hear. The machine I tested this on did not have hardware virtualization support and I think about 1 - 1 1/2 years went down since I've tested this scenario. I will definitely give it a shot the moment I own a HVM capable notebook, since I'm heavily tied to vmware from work, but love XEN in my spare time ;-)) -- Mr. Olli Am Montag, den 09.02.2009, 13:28 -0800 schrieb Kip Macy: > 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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