Re: [Qemu-devel] Is this possible - WinXP under Qemu (with accelerator module) under Xen ?

[Mark Williamson]

> Well the heading says it all. Since Xen can't run WinXp, can we use Qemu
> (with accelerator) to overcome this limitation ? I'm sure Qemu without
> accelerator will work but is there something in accelerator that won't work
> with Xen modified kernel.

IIRC, the binary portion of the accelerator module uses some instructions 
(e.g. sti, cli) that can't be directly executed under Xen.  Although 
emulation for them may now be in the unstable tree, the accelerator probably 
won't work in -stable or -testing.

Such a configuration would be rather useful however.  Those who are more 
knowledgable about QEmu can probably shed more light on this than I, however.

Cheers,
Mark