Running Citrix XenServer on VMware Workstation

This 4 min. demo shows you how to configure and install Citrix XenServer Express 4.0.1 on VMware Workstation 6.0. You need a machine with Intel VT or AMD-V enabled bios.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Citrx
• XenServer
• XenSource
• VMware
• Xen
• Virtualization
• HyperVisor

[dernyn]

Dubstar - A Certain Sadness is the name of the song

[BlasterFX1]

Nono guys. This is a Norwegian band called Ugress. This tune is called "Rain". They have a lot of free mp3's - just google them... :)

[BlasterFX1]

BTW, I now see they are listed here on youtube as well. Just search "Ugress".

[BabylonWhore666]

There is no point doing this is there?

It's simple enough to get XenServer running on VMWare - the point is, you cant run any virtualisation in XenServer because it doesnt have recursive access to the CPU virtualisation aspects of the chipset - which is required.

I.e. You can run a virtualised XenServer on VMWare, but you can not then run a virtualised citrix VM from within that environment. You just get told that HVM is required.

If I have this wrong then let me know.

[BabylonWhore666]

@krb3141 There isnt. See my later post.

[ssnanda]

text is hard to read, Can you put a high quality Video?

Or attach some information in Description

[ebischoff2]

Thanks - same problem for me, and your solution solved it!

[jhebbel7]

Hi,

in my case it is just for demo reasons. It's because you can't install xenserver parallel to your normal windows installation. Xenserver grabs the whole harddisk.

regards

[krb3141]

Beginner question...what is the point of running Xen server on top of VMWare Workstation?

[ywc2008]

tha's funny.

[jhebbel]

To solve this problem, you have to choose IDE for harddisk and DVD. Then you have to edit the VMX-File of the virtual machine and change

scsi0.present="TRUE"

to

scsi0.present="FALSE"

Had the same problem and now it works fine.

The problem doesn't occur in 4.01

regards