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Re: Re[Xen-users] lease 0.9.1 of GPL PV Drivers for Windows



Hi Florian,

can you pass the /gplpv swich to the kernel on windows server 2008 ?
How did you do ? 


Florian Manschwetus wrote:
> 
> Thx, james, for including the cat file entry, signing is much less work
> now.
> Looks fine so far.
> 
> Box is up with pv drivers, runs fine, network performance (smb share to 
> my file server) is still ok, (oo source tar ball to win 20MB/s, back to 
> filer 30MB/s).
> Lets wait for the new hardware to see real values. ;)
> 
> Florian
> 
> James Harper schrieb:
>> I have just uploaded a new binary release of the PV drivers for Windows.
>> I have tested that XenNet and XenSCSI can unload successfully (eg
>> upgrade without reboot), but only once this version or newer is
>> installed.
>> 
>> For now, it's probably best just to replace the .sys files in
>> c:\windows\system32\drivers with these new ones. I haven't tested how
>> install.bat works for an upgrade - one thing I haven't implemented is
>> the drivers behaving properly when a page file is on there - eg xenvbd
>> should refuse to unload in that case and it probably won't do the right
>> thing.
>> 
>> I have put the 'stub' drivers back so you can now silence xenvfb and
>> xenconsole asking for drivers by installing xenstub.
>> 
>> Have a look at the wiki page for more details:
>> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenWindowsGplPv
>> 
>> Download from:
>> http://www.meadowcourt.org/downloads/
>> (there is a link to the download site from the wiki entry).
>> 
>> James
>> 
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