Re: [Xen-users] Windows Server 2003 and multiple processors

Ryan Burke
Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:36:59 -0000

> I''ve noticed looking through the archives on this mailing list
that some
> of you have w2k3 running with multiple processors.  For any of you that
> have this, which HAL are you using?
>
> We are running RHEL 5, xen 3.0.4 on a Dell Poweredge 2950.  The
> processors support acpi, but we can''t get the acpi (uni or multi)
HAL to
> work in windows; the install hangs after it loads all the drivers
> (before you choose disk partitions, etc).  We were able to use the
> "Standard PC" which is suggested by redhat in their
documentation,
> however that only allows one processor.


Have you tried Xen 3.1 to see if you have the same problem? I don''t
have a
HVM capable machine but I know that Xen 3.1 included alot of tweaks for
HVM. Just a suggestion.

Ryan