Re: [Xen-users] New binary release of GPL PV drivers for Windows

[Stephan Seitz <s.seitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

First, thanks for your great work!

I've testet winnet/amd64 on
        Wicrosoft Windows XP
        Professional x64 Edition
        Version 2003
        Service Pack 2

on top of Xen 3.2.0 Release / 64bit running on Xeon E5345

and, in general it works. Installation is a bit tricky, but raw network i/o
is now on both delegated GBit Nics around 40MB/sec.
FTP transferring a 1GB gives about 27MB/sec. to XenPV Disk, about 19MB/sec
to Qemu Disk.

I disabled console and vfb driver, as every reboot states "New Hardware found,
which can be used after reboot" ... this message keeps up after every reboot.
This might have to do with the fact, that this domU doesn't have vnc and sdl
by default?

Additionally, as well as the former Realtek NIC's disappeared, the XenPV NIC's
need different configurations as Windows says "TCP/IP settings are identical
on..." and doesn't accept the settings. I think this is only a weired Windows
behaviour.

The original Qemu Disk and Qemu CDROM Devices are available to the new XenPV
Disk and CDROM Devices. Where the Qemu CDROM can be disabled, is there any
way to switch over the boot device to the XenPV Disk ?

If someone knows a Windows Benchmarking Suite, I'll do real tests. I know my
recent tests are not comparable to any value, but I'm a little bit handycapped
on windows ;)

cheers,

Stephan

        


James Harper schrieb:
> I've just uploaded a new binary release of the GPL PV drivers for
> Windows - release 0.6.3. Fixes in this version are:
>
> . Should now work on any combination of front and backend bit widths
> (32, 32p, 64). Previous crashes that I thought were due to Intel arch
> were actually due to this problem.
> . The vbd driver will now not enumerate 'boot' disks (eg those normally
> serviced by the emulated pci ide device) unless the xenhide driver is
> loaded which hides that pci ide device. Without this it was possible to
> load xenvbd, not load xenhide, and get two windows drivers (xenvbd and
> pciide) running the same backend disk. Filesystem hosing was a
> near-certain outcome!
>
> For everyone who's been getting crashes with xenvbd, this should fix
> those up.
>
> As usual, any and all feedback is appreciated!
>
> James
>
>
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