I am also interested in how this process is accomplished. I understand that
headless
installs of w3k server are possible on equipment that supports EMS but am
confounded by how hardware device driver support is provided in Xen at the
moment for this operating system?
See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;815273
Any words of wisdom from the enlightened would be most appreciated.
Regards
Petar
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephan Austermühle" <au@xxxxxxx>
To: <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 4:56 PM
Subject: [Xen-users] How do unmodified guests work with Xen?
Hi!
Although I'm tracking Xen (thanks to the Xen team -- they've done a great
job!) and virtualization for a while I still couldn't figure out how
unmodified guests work with Xen 3.0. Let's assume I'd like to install
Windows 2003 on Xen and have a system that has the VT/Pacifica feature.
Since the guest doesn't have access to the hardware it will need either
(Xen) drivers that know how to perform I/O (e.g., disk, networking) or Xen
needs to emulate hardware. Another problem I see is that Windows wants to
have a graphics card with at least VGA capabilities for installation. At
the moment I cannot see any other way than hardware emulation. Maybe
someone can tell how Xen works with unmodified guests in detail.
Thank you!
Kind regards,
Stephan
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