[olug] XEN

Christopher Cashell topher-olug at zyp.org
Thu Oct 9 19:06:47 UTC 2008


On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Obi-Wan <obiwan at jedi.com> wrote:
> I was under the impression that a Xen server required kernel support
> in each of the guests, which prevented it from running Windows guests.
> Am I mistaken?

If you're using a CPU with hardware virtualization support (most
server CPU's in the past year or two, and many recent desktop/laptop
CPU's (including Core 2 Duo's)), then you can run any operating system
as a Xen guest, unmodified.  Including Windows.

> --
> Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth                             obiwan at jedi.com

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Christopher



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