Xen in Virtual Machine?

[Mister Olli]

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 at 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,
> >
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