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If neither of the above command commands produce output then it is likely these features are unavailable and that your hardware is unable to run Xen HVM guests. It is also possible that the host CPU supports one of these features, but that the functionality is disabled by default in the system BIOS. To verify this, access the host system’s BIOS configuration menu during the boot process and look for an option related to virtualization support. If such an option exists and is disabled, enable it, boot the system and repeat the above commands.
== Windows Server 2008 Installation Media ==
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dd if=/dev/zero of=xenwin2008.img bs=1024k seek=6144 10000 count=0
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The above example assumes that Windows Server 2008 is going to be installed into a disk image and that the installation media is an ISO image file. If, on the other hand, a physical disk is to be used the disk directive might appear as follows (where ''/dev/sdb'' is replaced with the appropriate physcial physical device name):
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Similarly, the ''disk = '' directive can be modified to perform the installation from a physical DVD drive as in the following example (where ''/dev/hdccdrom'' is modified to reflect the physical device on your host system):
<pre>disk = [ 'phy:/dev/sdb,hda,w', 'phy:/dev/cdrom,hdc:cdrom.r' ]</pre> The above line maps physical disk drive ''/dev/sdb'' on the host to ''/dev/hda'' on the guest and ''/dev/hdccdrom'' on the host as the CD/DVD device on the guest (note that the CD/DVD device name on your host may be different depending on your Linux distribution).
Alternatively, if a disk image file is to be used as the disk drive the line might instead read:
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disk = [ 'phyfile:/devhome/xen/sdbxenwin2008.img,hda,w', 'phy:/dev/hdbcdrom,hdc:cdrom,r' ]
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xm create xenwin2008.cfg
Using config file "./hvmxenwin2008.cfg".
Started domain xenwin2008
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[[Image:xen_windows_2008_running.jpg|Windows Server 2008 running as a Xen HVM guest]]
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<td width="20%">[[Installing and Running Windows XP or Vista as a Xen HVM domainU Guest|Previous]]<td align="center">[[Xen Virtualization Essentials|Table of Contents]]<td width="20%" align="right">[[Adding USB Devices to Installing and Running Windows 7 as a Xen HVM domainU Guest|Next]]</td>
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<td width="20%">Installing and Running Windows XP or Vista as a Xen HVM domainU Guest<td align="center"><td width="20%" align="right">Adding USB Devices to Installing and Running Windows 7 as a Xen HVM domainU Guest</td>
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