Xen users - Dec 2008 - RE: [Xen-devel] GPLPV drivers 0.9.12-pre9 upload

Shutdownmon seems to be working properly on XP, now, too!
 
Thanks, James!
 
-Nick
>>> "James Harper" <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au>
2008/12/19 18:49 >>>
> 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.
> 
Forgot one important thing. /GPLPV isn''t required anymore. Use /NOGPLPV
to disable the device drivers, or boot into safe mode which will also
disable them.

James




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