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[Xen-users] Booting existing Windows as domU

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Subject: [Xen-users] Booting existing Windows as domU
From: Z24 <z24@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:09:14 +0100
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I have Ubuntu on a SATA disk and Windows on a EIDE disk and I use grub
for dual boot.
I got Windows booting as domU from its own partition (*), but I had to
let the domU see both disks:

disk = [ 'phy:/dev/sda,ioemu:hda,w', 'phy:/dev/hda,ioemu:hdb,w' ]

I guess this could be very dangerous since /dev/sda is the dom0 disk
and /dev/hda is Windows disk: if at grub menu I chose to load
Ubuntu/Xen I could destroy my partitions.

Is there a better way to avoid such a potential disaster?
TIA

(*)
http://www.mycomputingart.com/linux/Z24.xen3-winxp-partition.html?seemore=y

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