Trying Xen with VMKnoppix

Hi all,

I’m happy because I have a working Xen dom0 in an non VT enabled hardware (Dell D610)
Don’t think it’s simple you’ll be frustrated. All articles I found speaks about Xen and HVM but rarely about setting up a paravirtual (PV) solution, almost I could think It’s a geeky subject…

The hitory is very long :
First I tried Archlinux as a dom0 : didn’t work, searched a solution by my self, asked for some help at the ArchLinux’s forum => no result.
Then I tried Debian Lenny as a dom0 : a had a different problem (when I start xend I get this error : suspend: event channel 20 then my machine crashes automatically.

Some days after, I posted an e-mail to the xen-users mailing-list and I was suggested to give a try to Xen LiveCD as it’s based on a Debian Lenny => It didn’t boot at all (very frustrating)

I looked for a similar LiveCD and found VMKnoppix, it works as a LiveCD, so I decided to install it to my hard disk. Unfortunatly, when I start Xorg, it freezes and all what I got is a blank screen. I couldn’t go back to any tty, the only shortcat combination that works is CTRL+ALT+DEL.

I searched for a while a solution for the freeze, and found it here : modify the xorg.conf to use the vesa video driver instead of the Intel one (I have an Intel chipset on my laptop) because Xen doesn’t like to work with that one.

Hope this will help you cause it takes me a lot of time to find a solution