windows in xen on intel core-duo?

[albi]

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:24:44 -0400
matt.price at utoronto.ca wrote:

hi,

a quick answer, FWIW,

> I've just bought a new dell latitude d820, which is lovely.  

congrats ! :)

> It came with windows pre-installed, 

(i'm glad i always buy computer-pieces and build my own,
not paying the M$-tax :-)

> and I thught that this time
> (since I have a huge hard drive) I might leave  it installed in a
> shrunken-down partition.  What I'm wondering is whether I can get
> windows to run from inside linux somehow, using qemu, vmware, or
> xen.  the latitude d820 has an intel core-duo processor, so as I
> understand it some hardware virtualization is possible -- that is, it
> may be possible to run windows under xen.  but I haven't seen any
> howtos on this process, and I wondered whether anyone had tried it or
> seen a useful link somewhere.

qemu ? yes, but not raw, you need a disc-image
vmware ? probably..
xen ? no, there were license-issues with M$-Windows & xen

HTH