Re: [Xen-devel] [Xen-users] Xen 4.2 TODO (io and irq parameter are not evaluated by xl)

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 08:50 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 31.08.12 at 19:59, Kirk Allan wrote:
> >>> In one of my Window's vm config files, I was able to get the vm to
> >>> boot using ioports=['3f8-3ff'].  My goal was to do serial debugging of
> >>> the Windows vm.  I also added irq=[4] to the config file.  However, I
> >>> was not able to actually get a debug session to work.  The physical
> >>> machine running windbg received a string from the vm which gave me
> >>> hope that it was working, but then it never received further data so
> >>> the vm eventually booted without being attached to the debugger.
> >> 
> >> Thanks, the question was whether it would be useful to implement the
> >>    ioports = '3f8-3ff'
> >>    irq = 4
> >> syntax as well as the
> >>    ioports = ['3f8-3ff']
> >>    irq = [4]
> >> but it looks like you are actually using the array version anyway?
> > 
> > I first looked at this last week.  I found reference to both formats so I 
> > tried both.  I was only able to get the ioports = ['3f8-3ff'] and irq = [4] 
> > syntax to allow a vm to boot.
> 
> So Ian, I guess I got mislead by there being references to the
> non-array format - no need to alter your patch then in any way.
> 
> Sorry for the noise, Jan

No problem, it's a common problem when trying to figure out what xend
does or doesn't do...

Ian.



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