Re: Is anyone here playing with Xen, and care to compare notes?

On Sat, 10 May 2008, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
I've been dealing with VMware to run SCO OpenServer 5.0.6 for legacy software,
and for various reasons it's making me unhappy.

I've got serious experience with Xen, but don't have a host with full
virtualizaton capable hardware that I can test ideas on. Is anyone out there
running a recent version of Xen on anything and care to try to get an install
working?

See, installing Xen 5.0.6 on VMware seems to require using the 5.0.7 boot
floppy image and manually installing BusLogic SCSI adapter drivers. But the
Xen setup tools don't include options for setting this up from the command
line, and I'm short of time to take my VMWare server down and experiment.

What problems are you having? Mine seems to run really well I am using
SATA disks.

I have this in my osr507.vmx file.

#!/usr/bin/vmware
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "4"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
memsize = "256"
ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.fileName = "osr507.vmdk"
ide0:0.writeThrough = "TRUE"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "/dev/scd0"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
floppy0.startConnected = "FALSE"
floppy0.fileName = "/dev/fd0"
Ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
displayName = "osr507"
guestOS = "other"
priority.grabbed = "normal"
priority.ungrabbed = "normal"
powerType.powerOff = "hard"
powerType.powerOn = "hard"
powerType.suspend = "hard"
powerType.reset = "hard"
autostart = "poweron"
ide0:0.redo = ""
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
uuid.location = "56 4d 00 a0 66 37 25 64-bf 33 08 d3 aa 9f 18 b6"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 00 a0 66 37 25 64-bf 33 08 d3 aa 9f 18 b6"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:9f:18:b6"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"

usb.present = "FALSE"
usb.generic.autoconnect = "FALSE"

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