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List:       xen-users
Subject:    RE: [Xen-users] xen requirements for windows OS
From:       Geoff Streeter <geoff () dyalog ! com>
Date:       2006-11-30 14:20:46
Message-ID: 5.2.1.1.2.20061130141930.0461a728 () 194 ! 217 ! 242 ! 253
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At 2006-11-30 14:44 +0100, Petersson, Mats wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Geoff Streeter [mailto:geoff@dyalog.com]
> > Sent: 30 November 2006 13:36
> > To: Petersson, Mats; anant; xen-users@lists.xensource.com
> > Subject: RE: [Xen-users] xen requirements for windows OS
> >
> > At 2006-11-30 14:06 +0100, Petersson, Mats wrote:
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com
> > > > [mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of anant
> > > > Sent: 30 November 2006 12:58
> > > > To: xen-users@lists.xensource.com
> > > > Subject: [Xen-users] xen requirements for windows OS
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > can anybody pls tel me " what are the requirement of xen to
> > > > have WINDOWS
> > > > Operating System on top of it" ?
> > > > Thanks
> > >
> > >Basicly, that the processor supports AMD-V or Intel VT (also known in
> > >Xen terms as "Hardware supported Virtual Machine", HVM for short).
> > >
> > >There's some other obviour requiremnts, such as "sufficient amount of
> > >memory & disk-space" and "somewhere that the virtual machine
> > OS can be
> > >loaded from", but those are more the natural requirements for any
> > >virtualization...
> > >
> > >--
> > >Mats
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> >
> > I think there are more requirements if the Windows OS is a 64
> > bit version.
>
>Such as? AMD-V and Intel VT supports 64-bit OS's as guests, as long as
>the Hypervisor (Xen + Dom0 in this case) is 64-bit. Of course, in the
>Intel case there are some processors that have VT but don't support
>64-bit, in which case a 64-bit guest-OS won't work, of course...
>
>--
>Mats
> >
> > Geoff Streeter
> >
> >
> >
> >

The one I had in mind was that the hypervisor had to be 64 bit. However, if 
there were others then I thought I might start some rabbits.

Geoff 


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