[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] GPLPV drivers 0.9.12-pre9 upload
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:25 PM, James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've just uploaded 0.9.12-pre9. Please read the following before using: > > 1. Windows 2000 is no longer included in the binary distribution. It > didn't work. > > 2. qemu network and disk adapters are disabled, but will now appear as > having failed due to a change in the hiding code. This is cosmetic > (you'll get a warning on start that a service or driver failed to start) > but the effect is the same, except you won't get strange things > happening as a result of pci devices just disappearing - I was seeing > delays in places during startup and shutdown. > > 3. If you are using the latest Xen 3.3.1 hg (maybe 3.3.0 too?), the > qemu_disable_patches.diff patch applied to the ioemu-remote git repo > (after 'make tools' has downloaded it, or after you've updated it to the > latest) will completely remove the ide disks and network interfaces, > leaving the cdroms as emulated by qemu. This is how things should be > going forward - qemu cdrom's means you get eject and virtual image swap > etc, and performance on a cdrom is hardly critical. Hopefully these > patches will make it into Xen 3.4. > > 4. Please test in a dev environment. I haven't broken my test servers > during upgrade or anything, but testing first is just common sense. > > 5. 64 bit block addressing is in place but not really tested. If you > have block devices >1TB that didn't work previously, please give it a go > and let me know. > > 6. Save+restore is working for me at the moment, please report any > issues. > > Go to http://www.meadowcourt.org/downloads/ for the gplpv driver > download and, if you want, the qemu_disable_patches.diff patch. > > See the thread in xen-devel with a subject of 'disable qemu PCI devices > in HVM domains' for an explanation of how the qemu device disabling > works. I had a question on compiling the code few days ago. Could you answer that? Thanks, J _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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