Archive for the ‘Xen’ Category

Xen and VT Running Windows

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Using XEN with hardware vitualization to get Windows up and running in a cute little box (where it’s harder for it to break things) should be easy. Just pop in the disk, tell it to install, and away you go, right?

Nope. Went through a good hour of tweaking and prodding the Xen install to get it kicking correctly. After which it just wouldn’t do anything when I went to install Windows 2000 or Windows XP.

Nothing. Just sat at the Starting Windows for install screen.

Turns out, you need to hit F5 before it gets to that point. While it’s displaying “hit F2″ or “hit F6″ on the screen. Then choose the top option instead of the “other architecture” default option.

Freaky. And irritating.

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New CentOS 5.0 Xen Server Live

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Our new virtual server is live! Pound’s handling the connections and routing to the appropriate destination, Xen does the VM’ing, and Apache’s still working its server mojo.

All this being served up off a beefy (and more efficient) Red Hat Linux machine. Now I just have to get the processor power controls up and we’ll be all set.

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