Re: [Xen-devel] State of GPLPV and Windows 8

[Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Harper [mailto:james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 19 February 2013 12:10
> To: Paul Durrant; Andreas Kinzler; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: State of GPLPV and Windows 8
> 
> >
> > Windows 8 doesn't actually shut down when you tell it to... It terminates 
> > all
> > sessions apart from 0 (where services live) and then hibernates, so
> > 'shutdown' is actually a lot more complex and error prone than it was
> before.
> >
> 
> I've gotten it all working now, but the restore from hibernate (which appears
> to use qemu) is slow. The hibernate on a 1GB machine takes seconds but the
> restore takes over a minute.
> 

Yes, I've noticed Windows 8 seemingly taking a lot longer to load/restore than 
previous versions but never dug into it. I'm assuming it's going to be some 
suboptimal int13 handing, or maybe Windows 8 is bypassing the f/w and driving 
the IDE device itself?

  Paul

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