RE: AW: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] Re: Xen 4.0 - Support for Citrix WHQL-certified Windows PV drivers

[Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Weren't some of the changes (console and the like) backported to xend? My 
memory is hazy.

  Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pasi Kärkkäinen [mailto:pasik@xxxxxx]
> Sent: 07 September 2010 15:07
> To: Paul Durrant
> Cc: Giovanni Bellac; Ian Campbell; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: AW: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] Re: Xen 4.0 - Support
> for Citrix WHQL-certified Windows PV drivers
> 
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 03:01:14PM +0100, Paul Durrant wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Pasi Kärkkäinen [mailto:pasik@xxxxxx]
> > > Sent: 07 September 2010 14:46
> > > To: Paul Durrant
> > > Cc: Giovanni Bellac; Ian Campbell; xen-
> devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> > > xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Re: AW: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] Re: Xen 4.0 -
> Support
> > > for Citrix WHQL-certified Windows PV drivers
> > >
> > > On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 01:26:04PM +0100, Paul Durrant wrote:
> > > >    Presumably the tools are creating a
> /local/domain/3/console/0
> > > entry if you
> > > >    don't specify VNC; it's another example of the same issue
> you
> > > saw before.
> > > >
> > > >    The Citrix PV drivers are not routinely tested on xen-
> unstable;
> > > you need
> > > >    to tweak your tools to give them the environment they
> expect
> > > (which is
> > > >    that the only thing under /local/domain/XXX/device are vbd
> and
> > > vif nodes).
> > > >
> > >
> > > I guess the behaviour of Citrix PV drivers has changed recently?
> > > The drivers from XCP 0.1.x worked OK on Xen 4.0 earlier..
> > >
> >
> > I don't think so. I think the fe close code has been static for a
> while, whereas the tools, mostly libxl, have seen massive churn of
> late.
> >
> 
> Yeah, libxl has had a lot of changes, but the user in question was
> using xm..
> 
> -- Pasi


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