Hi, I have a question about the switch /gplpv in boot.ini I see that some of the pv driver code is looking at this option; is there is any other piece of code that looks at this option before the drivers get loaded and perhaps change the bootpath or do something fancy? Thanks in advance, Udas _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> Hi, > > I have a question about the switch /gplpv in boot.ini > > I see that some of the pv driver code is looking at this option; is > there is any other piece of code that looks at this option before the > drivers get loaded and perhaps change the bootpath or do something > fancy? >Which version are you looking in? The very latest versions no longer use /gplpv to activate the drivers, they only use /nogplpv to deactivate the drivers. Booting in safe mode will also deactivate the drivers. The parsing of the boot line is (I think) only done in xenpci.c now. James _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Dear James I can confirm now the only remaining issue with the GPLPV drivers: the windows virtual machines do not reboot, the domains must be destroyed and restarted. The problem is that the memory does not get returned to the machine after a domain is destroyed. That is a bug filed by Novell a couple of days ago. The restart problem is on the drivers because the same machine with Novell PV drivers restarts just fine. I can give you access to one of my servers if you want to perform some tests. Federico -----Original Message----- From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com [mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of James Harper Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 8:17 AM To: udas; xen-users@lists.xensource.com Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Question about /gplpv> Hi, > > I have a question about the switch /gplpv in boot.ini > > I see that some of the pv driver code is looking at this option; is > there is any other piece of code that looks at this option before the > drivers get loaded and perhaps change the bootpath or do something > fancy? >Which version are you looking in? The very latest versions no longer use /gplpv to activate the drivers, they only use /nogplpv to deactivate the drivers. Booting in safe mode will also deactivate the drivers. The parsing of the boot line is (I think) only done in xenpci.c now. James _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Venefax wrote:> I can confirm now the only remaining issue with the GPLPV drivers: the > windows virtual machines do not reboot, the domains must be destroyed and > restarted.I''m a Xen PV Drivers noob: I installed 0.9.12-pre13.exe for the first time about five days ago, and I don''t have this problem with either Windows XP or Windows 2003 guests; a reboot works fine. I also note that I did the install before I saw the docs comment about xen-3.0.3 in Dom0 supposedly not working; I have xen-3.0.3 on a CentOS 5.2 x86_64 Dom0 and it works well for me. The increase in guest performance is outstanding. Steve _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users