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Hi. I have some new 64bit Windows 2008 R2 domU''s running on SLES11/xen_3.4.2. What is everyone using to get 1gb network performance on win2k8? I''ve used GPLPV on win2k3, but I see you have to sign the drivers yourself for 64bit. Maybe that process isn''t difficult, I only glance at the link from gplpv''s page. What is everyone using? GPLPV is about the only

I built a couple new servers on SLES11 because I needed to use USB. Since SLES11 has xen 3.4 packages that seemed like the way to go. I''m questioning the stability of the two new servers compared to my SLES10SP2 servers. I''m also questioning the performance of Windows domUs. On Thanksgiving day one of my SLES11 servers running 7-8 domUs crashed and restarted three times. Being

I have a Win2K3 domU (and thankfully an image backup of the LVM volume that holds its system disk) I previously installed GPLPV v0.8.9 drivers, the domU boots OK with or without the /GPLPV switch in boot.ini, however with the /GPLPV switch it tries and fails to use the Xen network driver, and so the machine is network-less, so for the past few months I''ve left it using pure HVM

I''m running xen on SLES10SP2. It''s been much more stable than SP1, but I still occasionally have issues. For example, one of my servers (8 CPU/32GB RAM) has five sles pv domUs and five fully virtualized windows 2k3 domUs. It had been up for almost 60 days. Yesterday afternoon one of the sles domU''s stopped responding. I went to check on it and I couldn''t using

Hi, I'm hope I'm right here. I'm trying to boot a XEN 3.2.1 via PXEBoot using the following config: LABEL xen_3.2_amd64 kernel mboot.c32 append images/debian/xen_3.2/amd64/xen-3.2-1-amd64.gz \ --- images/debian/xen_3.2/amd64/vmlinuz-2.6.26-bpo.1-xen-amd64 rw root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=172.16.0.1:/var/lib/tftpboot/clientroot panic=0 \ ---

Hi guys, what distribution do you recommend, if you want to run producive systems on it. i got a cluster with two sles10sp2 nodes - but i''m not that satisfied. The migration of my windows-systems are not working in an acceptable way and the pv-drivers for win of suse are not a speed boost at all. Well I could spend big money for Xen Enterprise or VirtualIron - but - do I really have to

I''ve been struggling with this for quite some time. I have some older VMs that had 0.9.11 GPLPV drivers installed. I''ve tried removing them manually and I''ve tried the uninstall batch file. They do "appear" to be removed, but I''ve never been able to get Novell''s Virtual Machine Driver Pack to install on these VMs. I always get an error when

I''m trying to install Win2k3 server in a domU. dom0 is running on CentOS 5.3 and xen version is xen-3.0.3-80. I can create the new server with virt manager, win2k3 starts to install (goes through the blue back ground part of the installation, but when it reboots I get "A disk read error occurred". Any ideas? Also, are there any yum repos where I can get a newer version of

Hello ¿How could I add more disk space and another partition to my Windows 2k3 domu? I dont want to resize the C: partition a need a newone. kind regards -----Mensaje original----- De: John Leach [mailto:john@johnleach.co.uk] Enviado el: Viernes, 15 de Agosto de 2008 12:25 Para: Xen-users@lists.xensource.com Asunto: Re: [Xen-users] Live migration - Networking take 2 minutes or so to return

Hi all, After loading the GplPV drivers for Windows Server 2008, I wanted to get rid of the annoying F8 option when rebooting each time. I looked at Ready Driver Plus, which seemed to work, but was only a workaround. It also seemed to kill my terminal connection from Dom0. After some research, I found another way: http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=dseo Which will disable driver

I had an issue late yesterday where some windows domU''s were down. The person who "owns" those domUs let windows updates install and then restart, which they failed to restart. When I tried to manually restart them I was getting can''t allocate memory errors. In the past I''ve had can''t allocate memory errors when trying to bring up a new domU.

Hi list, one and hopefully last strange thing I figured out ist the systime of my guests. Dom0 uses ntp for time syncronisation. I set the time on my guests manually but after reboot any machine (Windows server, XP, Freebsd, even PV Machines like ubuntu) all run local time - 2 hours. /proc/sys/xen/independent_wallclock is set to 0 so actually the time should be set by dom0...(?) Any

Hi, I have CentOS 5.3 64bit and couple of Windows Server 2008 32Bit DomU's on it. Problem is that I got hit with the "A clock interrupt was not recevied on a secondary processor within the allocated time interval" Blue Screen when trying to run with more than one CPU When searching around I found that official XEN distribution (development version) has some fixes for it, but

Hi there. I have been dealing with a conundrum off and on with a VPS of mine. Windows 2003 Standard 32 bit on a Xen HVM instance. Been trying to get the GPLPV drivers working to help boost performance but always seem to run into one major issue: The PV network device looks like it works but actual connectivity is non-existant. Everything else in the GPLPV driver suite works fine. What I want to

I have xen 3.04 running on SLES10SP1. It''s working great, but I''m wondering if I have some memory issues with dom0. I have 7 domU''s, 1 is win2k, the other 6 are win2k3. I''ve had a lot of machines up and down with a reboot of dom0 in quite a while. I''m wondering if dom0 has not given up memory during the process. I added 5 win2k3 domU''s today.

All, in order to have consistent backups of Windows HVM guests, I need to shut them down first. "rdesktop" could do this from a Linux shell, but I don''t have X Windows active (called from cron). Another idea would be to have Cygwin sshd, which i don''t like to install for support reasons. Is anyone aware of any other possibility? Thx! B.

Hi everyone. I´m having this problem with Red Hat 5.4 running on a HP ProLiant BL460c G6. I have two windows 2k3 x64, but network performance is extremely bad without PV drivers, i mean, it takes a lot of time to access any location and if the path has many folders it can´t conect. Redhat provides some PV dirvers. I´ve installed them, but with no improvements. I tested another DomU, with the

I'm not sure why this started, but apparently I'm having a DNS problem. Yesterday mail started bouncing with this error: 450 Unable to find obrien-pifer.com I think the messages eventually get delivered, but not sure. I guess I'll see if this one makes the list. I checked my domain using http://www.checkdns.net/ and it gives me a couple warnings. One is that there's no MX

Hi, i''m running a two dom0 nodes cluster for HA, and xen domUs running on top, currently it handles 5 domUs. The issue is that there''s a domU that can only run on one node, it''s not possible to start it on the other one. I get a ''b'' status and can''t access the console. Other domUs can start in either node and I can access their console without

I finally have a xen server to play with stuff that''s causing me problems on my production servers. One of those problems is simply installing Windows 2003. Here''s what I do: Open virt-manager set up a new install: full virt 512 ram 20 gig sparse file boot off /dev/cdrom The install starts as you''d expect. When it gets to the formatting I tell it to format in NTFS.