Xen users - Mar 2009 - R: Re: Windows PV config

Christian Tramnitz wrote:
>
> Francesco Gallo wrote:
>> is there someone who could share his own XEN configuration for Windows 
>> PV domU?
>
> Unless you have a special windows kernel that has been modified for Xen 
> (which I don''t think you have and/or will get) you cannot run
Windows in
> PV. What you can do (if you have a VT compatible system) is run Windows 
> in HVM and use some PV drivers (i.e. gplpv) for better performance.
> 
> If that is what you want I''m sure you will find some help here...
So PV definition is the wrong one, it is a full virtualized and optimized
guest, i use Xen-PV-Drivers-0.9.12-pre13.exe for reaching the aim, anyway
can someone share his own configuration, i would like to compare with mine
that is the following:

kernel          = ''/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader''
builder         = ''hvm''
memory          = ''2048''
vcpus           = 4
arc_libdir      = ''lib64''
device_model    = ''/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm''
hvm             = 1
#Params
#acpi=0
#apci=0
#pae=0

#EVENTS
on_poweroff = ''destroy''
on_reboot   = ''restart''
on_crash    = ''destroy''

# Disks
disk
[''file:/root/vms/win2k8/disk.img,ioemu:xvda,w'',''phy:/dev/cdrom,hdc:cdrom,r'']
# Hostname
name = ''win2k8''

# Networking
vif = [''mac=00:11:2e:78:34:45, bridge=xenbr0, type='']

# Behaviour
boot=''dc''
vfb = [''type=vnc,vncunused=1'']
vnc=1
vncviewer=1


Thanks a lot,
Francesco Gallo



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On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Francesco Gallo <cluster@xinet.it>
wrote:
> So PV definition is the wrong one, it is a full virtualized and optimized
> guest, i use Xen-PV-Drivers-0.9.12-pre13.exe for reaching the aim, anyway
> can someone share his own configuration, i would like to compare with mine
Any particular part you want to compare? Did you have some problems?
Here''s mine : http://pastebin.com/f23e0f5e1
Tested for Win 2003 and XP. For Windows 2008, you need to set apic and
pae=1 (or comment them out) and set memory=1000 or higher.
> name = ''win2k8''
Are you using 32bit or 64 bit version? I think GPLPV has some problems
with the 64bit version.
> vfb = [''type=vnc,vncunused=1'']
> vnc=1
AFAIK the vfb line only works for PV guest, while vnc line only works
HVM guest. You can delete the vfb line.
> vncviewer=1
I prefer not to have xen start vncviewer since on my setup it''s a
remote server. Instead, I connect vnc client from another host (my
desktop).

Regards,

Fajar

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