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HowTo: Windows XP on Xen 3.1 (from source) on a MacBook Pro

This guide assumes a decent working knowledge of Linux, compiling source, virtualization, and networking. For my purposes, it was easier to just blow away OSX and install a Linux distribution on the MacBook Pro. Supposedly, someone has been able to compile Xen on OSX, so you may want to check out the xen-users [...]

Installing Xen 3.1 on a machine with the ICH9 chipset

So, I’ve been trying to install Xen 3.1 on a machine that has the relatively new Intel ICH9 chipset. Unfortunately, the Xen build process uses the 2.6.18 kernel which does not support ICH9 SATA controllers, so dom0 would kernel panic. To get around this, I made the changes suggested in this patch to [...]