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Re: [Xen-users] drivers to run windows as HVM guest


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2008/8/22 Sebastian Reitenbach <sebastia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Now I go try and edit the boot.ini file on the image that I copied from the
> physical box, and try copying the *sys and *inf files there too, hopefully
> the BSOD will be gone then.
>
> Are these driver installers doing more than just copying the *inf and *sys
> files into the correct places? In case they do more, what would that be?

You need to be careful with adding the drivers manually, there are
some registry entries that add Upper/Lower Filters to device drivers
and change registry entries related to ACPI/HAL, I think you'd be
quite likely to end up with a non-bootable, corrupted disk.

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