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Hello All,

I am trying to install the Virtual machine through xen kernel But it gives me the memory error.
My machine has 1GB memory, VM machine needs 256MB RAM…But yet during installation the error comes that the machine has no enough memory. Any idea on how to resolve this issue,

Regards,
Ghulam Yaseen

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To be honest Xen would not be my choice. Consider Virtual Box.
Downloads - VirtualBox

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caf4926 adjusted his/her AFB on Friday 08 May 2009 19:16 to write:

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> To be honest Xen would not be my choice. Consider Virtual Box.
> ‘Downloads - VirtualBox’ (http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads)
>
>

Will second that. installed virtualbox, installed XP did all the updates in
just a few hours this afternoon with no probs at all ( almost a pleasure to
reboot xp in about 15 seconds ) :slight_smile:

Due to a faulty ram module this machine only has 2 gig as well, new stuff on
order and the CPU is a lowlly Dual athlon 64bit @ 2.5g, will be a quad
phenom soon though :wink:

Still runs very acceptable.

HTH

–
Mark

Nullus in verba
Nil illigitimi carborundum

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Dear caf4926,

I think this is SUSE forum and we need to discuss or share information related to SUSe.
I honestly need help!

Best Regards,
Ghulam Yaseen
Linux System Engineer
Worldcall Telecom LTD

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What!
Please - this doesn’t make sense to me - sorry.

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We appreciate that you need help with Xen, but you may have to be patient until someone with that knowledge comes by. I and many others would have made the same comment as @caf4926 did, because many people here use Sun’s VirtualBox for virtuallization, especially on their home computers.

In the meantime, you will find many Howto’s on this page under the titles “Virtualization” and “XEN”. I hope that helps for now. :slight_smile:

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If somebody would ask me to get Xen working properly, running VM’s smoothly, first question would be: How much RAM do you have? If the answer would be ‘1 GB’, I’d stop until it’s at least 4 GB.
People are trying to tell you to use VirtualBox instead of Xen, please give that a try. With your 1 GB Xen will never bring you what you want, VirtualBox can.

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Dear Knurpht,

Thanks for the reply. I think this may be the issue.

Best Regards,
Ghulam Yaseen

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ghulamyaseen wrote:

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> Dear Knurpht,
>
> Thanks for the reply. I think this may be the issue.
>
> Best Regards,
> Ghulam Yaseen
> Knurpht;1984069 Wrote:
>> If somebody would ask me to get Xen working properly, running VM’s
>> smoothly, first question would be: How much RAM do you have? If the
>> answer would be ‘1 GB’, I’d stop until it’s at least 4 GB.
>> People are trying to tell you to use VirtualBox instead of Xen, please
>> give that a try. With your 1 GB Xen will never bring you what you want,
>> VirtualBox can.
>
>
Your original post said you needed 256MB, but how much memory does your
graphics card and others need? Sounds like 1GB is not enough.

Russ
openSUSE 11.1 (2.6.27.21-0.1-default x86_64) KDE 4.2 release 106, Intel
DX48BT2 Core 2 Dual E7200. 4 GB DDR III GeForce 8400 GS, 320GB Disc (2)

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Hi Russ,
How is the Solution 4 test going? You seem to be having fun with 11.2 these days. Hope to see you back in that other thread sometime with a positive result. :slight_smile:
Appreciate your help.

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consused wrote:

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> Hi Russ,
> How is the Solution 4 test going? You seem to be having fun with 11.2
> these days. Hope to see you back in that other thread sometime with a
> positive result. :slight_smile:
> Appreciate your help.
>
I’m sorry I haven’t been back to you. I have had to major problems, one with
11.2 and one with my production 11.1 system. I reinstalled virtualbox 2.2
but decided to try Win 7 but it will not install, says I have a 32-bit
system but I downloaded the 64-bit version from Sun. Is the virtual machine
only 32-bit? everything I read says it can emulate a 64-bit.

I’ll reload XP tonight and get back and get going.

i enjoy helping.

–
Russ
openSUSE 11.1 (2.6.27.21-0.1-default x86_64) KDE 4.2 release 106, Intel
DX48BT2 Core 2 Dual E7200. 4 GB DDR III GeForce 8400 GS, 320GB Disc (2)

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Thanks for getting back. No worries here. Sorry about the production system, but you gained useful experience. See you over in the grey thread.