Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] docs: xlexample.hvm: mention the viridian setting

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 15:22 +0000, Christoph Egger wrote:
> On 11/25/11 16:11, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > # HG changeset patch
> > # User Ian Campbell<ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > # Date 1322233890 0
> > # Node ID b4c07fbe3557ae501fc2d8a21b41f1b1cd5198cb
> > # Parent  31e71820ce93b72b0223882f6c2e1f461920bda9
> > docs: xlexample.hvm: mention the viridian setting.
> >
> > Turning this on for Windows guests is recommended.
> 
> Actually, Hyper-V fails to boot with viridian=1 because our
> viridian implementation misses features such as the virtualized
> LAPIC interface.

You mean booting a Viridian _Host_ as a Nested HVM guest?

I'm not sure I can make that distinction clearly and concisely enough to
be useful in this context nor that this is something for a regular user
to worry about.

If you want to propose an update to the xl.cfg(5) man page I posted we
could see how that looks.

Ian.

> 
> Christoph
> 
> 
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell<ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > diff -r 31e71820ce93 -r b4c07fbe3557 tools/examples/xlexample.hvm
> > --- a/tools/examples/xlexample.hvm  Fri Nov 25 14:44:10 2011 +0000
> > +++ b/tools/examples/xlexample.hvm  Fri Nov 25 15:11:30 2011 +0000
> > @@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ name = "example.hvm"
> >   # The default behavior is to generate a new UUID each time the guest is 
> > started.
> >   #uuid = "XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX"
> >
> > +# Enable Microsoft Hyper-V compatibile paravirtualisation /
> > +# enlightenment interfaces. Turning this on can improve Windows guest
> > +# performance and is therefore recommended
> > +#viridian = 1
> > +
> >   # Initial memory allocation (MB)
> >   memory = 128
> >
> >
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> 
> 



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