Thursday, December 6, 2007

Xen on top of Qemu on top of VMware

For those interested in nested virtualization, it is possible to run qemu on top of VMware. Let's say that you are running a Ubuntu VM, you can probably install qemu with this simple command:

sudo apt-get install qemu 

Once you have qemu installed, you can boot another operating system (on that is Xen-friendly) on top of that. With the second operating system installed, you can go ahead and install Xen. From that just follow the Xen tutorial. Here are some of the tools that I have used to help me along the way:

dd - used to make an img file

mkfs - used to format img file

mount - used to mount the img file ( use '-o loop')

Hope this help. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Good luck.

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