kcobler at coblercorp
Apr 2, 2012, 5:42 AM
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Re: Windows 7 as guest on a physikal disk
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Jen,
I used dd to copy the physical device to a linux file.
Ken
> Hi Ken,
>
> thanks for the reply, I want to try that. How did you copy
> the Windows from disk to file? Did you make a raw copy
> using 'dd' or did you copy the files using 'cp' on the loop-mounted
> file system?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jens
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> On 03/22/2012 03:05 PM, Ken Cobler wrote:
>> Quoting Jens Krause <jens.krause [at] eco-5>:
>>
>>> Hallo,
>>>
>>> I have an installed Windows 7 on one partition
>>> and running Debain Squeeze on the other. Both are 64 bit.
>>> I want to use Xen to run Windows as virtual guest from
>>> a physical disk. Once I get this working the Window will
>>> never be booted directly.
>>>
>>>
>>> When I try to create the virtual machine by
>>> "xm create -c win.xen"
>>> it hangs.
>>>
>>>
>>> The versions I use
>>> Xen 4.0.1-4
>>> Kernel 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64
>>>
>>
>> I believe with the version of Xen (or maybe the Linux OS), there
>> was an issue with physical device blocking.
>>
>> I had a similar problem with Windows 2008.
>>
>> I resolved the problem for my situation be simply creating the OS
>> as a file, mounting the device under Linux, then using the GPLPV
>> drivers in Windows to achieve decent disk throughput for the guest
>> OS.
>>
>> Ken Cobler
>>
>>
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