Xen users - Feb 2012 - Do I have GPL-PV Installed right?

Hey Guys,

I was looking at a windows 32 bit VM I have running.  I noticed the drivers
for the "IDE ATA/AAPI controllers" are Microsoft drivers.  I do have a
"Storage Controllers" -> "Xen Block Device Driver" which
has "Xen GPL PV
Driver Developers" for the provider and "GPLPV" in my
loadoptions.  Is
there anything else I should have/check to ensure this is working?

builder=''hvm''
memory = 2048
vcpus=2
maxvcpus=2
shadow_memory = 8
vif = [ ''type=vif,bridge=xenbr0,ip=XXX,mac=XXX'' ]
acpi = 1
apic = 1
disk = [''phy:/dev/sdc1,hda,w'']
xen_platform_pci=1
device_model_version="qemu-xen"
boot="dc"
sdl=1
opengl=1
stdvga=0
vnc=0
nomigrate=1
serial=''pty''
usbdevice=''tablet''

I''m running linux 3.1.6 with xen 4.1.2.  Let me know if
there''s any other
details I should include.  I just noticed the hard disk speed seemed a bit
slow for some tests I ran.  I did flip my BIOS from IDE->AHCI last week
which is why I was looking at this.

Any standard benchmarks I can run in the Windows VM and a bare metal
install to compare?  Anything I should check?

Thanks for the help.


_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@lists.xensource.com
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

> Hey Guys,
> 
> I was looking at a windows 32 bit VM I have running.  I noticed the drivers
for
> the "IDE ATA/AAPI controllers" are Microsoft drivers.  I do have
a "Storage
> Controllers" -> "Xen Block Device Driver" which has
"Xen GPL PV Driver
> Developers" for the provider and "GPLPV" in my loadoptions. 
Is there
> anything else I should have/check to ensure this is working?
> 
GPLPV just ''unplugs'' the disk drives (for anything newer than
Xen 3.4.1 I think). The CDROM drives and the ATAPI controllers stay functional
and just use the Microsoft drivers as usual.

James