Re: [Xen-users] Release 0.9.5 of GPL PV Drivers for Windows

[Ruslan Sivak <russ@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> I finally got it to work.  The drivers were not being installed even 
> on with testsigning on (didn't seem to make a difference).  I 
> installed the drivers, got a warning but told it to ignore it, but the 
> drivers were still not showing up as installed in device manager.  I 
> think installed them manually through the device manager before 
> rebooting and then set up the boot entries.  This made it work, but 
> the performance seems pretty bad.  Originally I was averaging around 
> 70mb/s on a system that does about 340 MB/s as measured by hdparm -t.  
> After installing the drivers, I'm not averaging 18MB/s.  Did I do 
> something wrong?  I though these drivers were supposed to give better 
> performance, not worse?
> This is my disk line if it helps:
>
> disk = [ 'phy:/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-lvol2,hda,w', 
> 'file:/mnt/isos/en_windows_server_2008_datacenter_enterprise_standard_x86_dvd_X14-26710.iso,ioemu:hdc:cdrom,r'] 
I just installed the drivers on Win2k3 x64, and I'm seeing the same 
slowdown. 

Russ

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