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Do you need something specific a simple google search for ''xen gplpv driver'' didn''t turned up? If not, just start here: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Windows_GplPv There are links for the signed and unsigned driver as well as the microsoft SDKs in the buildprocess subsection. But for simply installing you don''t need the SDKs iirc. Off Topic: Why is there no reference to James on the wiki page? I think he deserves some credit :) 2013/2/17 jacek burghardt <jaceksburghardt@gmail.com>:> Can someone point me to latest precompiled drivers . Signed would be nice. > Can someone point me to microsoft sdk kits downloads > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xen.org > http://lists.xen.org/xen-users
On the one hand, yes, the most recent prebuild drivers are about a year old. This is because James Harper is doing, as far as I understood, a major rework on them tu cut irq usage to a minimum. But this seems to be mostly done and a new beta version for first testing will be released more sooner then later. On the other hand, you really should have a decent performance even without gplpv driver and near-native performance with the current one year old ones. So if you got major performance issues, it''s very likely that this is not a gplpv issue. Two years ago I had a similar issue and found out I had to disable C-States in dom0 to get decent performance in my Windows domU. Just to show you that the issue can be in an entirely different place. Also, don''t get your hopes too high on the new gplpv drivers cause afaik James uses a Win7 for testing his drivers and I haven''t heard from anyone testing them on Win2012 yet. But never the less I added him in cc, maybe he can clerify the situation a bit more. 2013/2/17 jacek burghardt <jaceksburghardt@gmail.com>:> Well all precompiled drivers are one year old and it seems that lots had > changed. I installed signed driver with windows server 2012 and latest 4.3 > unstable and it seems that my server 2012 is very slow now. > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Matthias > <matthias.kannenberg@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> Do you need something specific a simple google search for ''xen gplpv >> driver'' didn''t turned up? >> >> If not, just start here: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Windows_GplPv >> >> There are links for the signed and unsigned driver as well as the >> microsoft SDKs in the buildprocess subsection. But for simply >> installing you don''t need the SDKs iirc. >> >> Off Topic: Why is there no reference to James on the wiki page? I >> think he deserves some credit :) >> >> 2013/2/17 jacek burghardt <jaceksburghardt@gmail.com>: >> > Can someone point me to latest precompiled drivers . Signed would be >> > nice. >> > Can someone point me to microsoft sdk kits downloads >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Xen-users mailing list >> > Xen-users@lists.xen.org >> > http://lists.xen.org/xen-users > >
> Also, don''t get your hopes too high on the new gplpv drivers cause > afaik James uses a Win7 for testing his drivers and I haven''t heard > from anyone testing them on Win2012 yet. But never the less I added > him in cc, maybe he can clerify the situation a bit more. >2012 works (as in boots and runs) but I haven''t done any performance testing yet. Windows 8 has a feature where by default when you say shutdown it actually hibernates instead, and I''m having a bit of trouble getting hibernate working (or specifically, resume from hibernate). I think it won''t actually matter too much because on resume from hibernate, windows uses bios calls to load the crash dump and this is horribly slow because it goes via qemu not gplpv so most people would turn off the feature, but I''d still like to have it working so a default install of win8 works and I don''t get emails asking why it crashed etc. James
I was testing something and xl reboot does not do anything xen states domain xx rebooting but it seems nothing is being send to server 2012 . On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 3:26 PM, James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au> wrote:> > Also, don''t get your hopes too high on the new gplpv drivers cause > > afaik James uses a Win7 for testing his drivers and I haven''t heard > > from anyone testing them on Win2012 yet. But never the less I added > > him in cc, maybe he can clerify the situation a bit more. > > > > 2012 works (as in boots and runs) but I haven''t done any performance > testing yet. > > Windows 8 has a feature where by default when you say shutdown it actually > hibernates instead, and I''m having a bit of trouble getting hibernate > working (or specifically, resume from hibernate). I think it won''t actually > matter too much because on resume from hibernate, windows uses bios calls > to load the crash dump and this is horribly slow because it goes via qemu > not gplpv so most people would turn off the feature, but I''d still like to > have it working so a default install of win8 works and I don''t get emails > asking why it crashed etc. > > James > > >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-users
Did you also install the xen reboot service? Since windows can''t interprete the external shutdown request, you need a specific service who listens to it.. this is usually included in the gplpv driver but iirc has to be installed seperately.. 2013/2/18 jacek burghardt <jaceksburghardt@gmail.com>:> I was testing something and xl reboot does not do anything xen states domain > xx rebooting but it seems nothing is being send to server 2012 . > > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 3:26 PM, James Harper > <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au> wrote: >> >> > Also, don''t get your hopes too high on the new gplpv drivers cause >> > afaik James uses a Win7 for testing his drivers and I haven''t heard >> > from anyone testing them on Win2012 yet. But never the less I added >> > him in cc, maybe he can clerify the situation a bit more. >> > >> >> 2012 works (as in boots and runs) but I haven''t done any performance >> testing yet. >> >> Windows 8 has a feature where by default when you say shutdown it actually >> hibernates instead, and I''m having a bit of trouble getting hibernate >> working (or specifically, resume from hibernate). I think it won''t actually >> matter too much because on resume from hibernate, windows uses bios calls to >> load the crash dump and this is horribly slow because it goes via qemu not >> gplpv so most people would turn off the feature, but I''d still like to have >> it working so a default install of win8 works and I don''t get emails asking >> why it crashed etc. >> >> James >> >> >
> > I was testing something and xl reboot does not do anything xen states > domain xx rebooting but it seems nothing is being send to server 2012 . >That would happen if shutdownmon service wasn''t running. Can you check that? Otherwise install the debug version of the drivers and send me the output of /var/log/xen/qemu-dm-<domu name>.log after issuing the reboot. James
> > Did you also install the xen reboot service? Since windows can''t > interprete the external shutdown request, you need a specific service > who listens to it.. this is usually included in the gplpv driver but > iirc has to be installed seperately.. >If you just click ''Next'' and ''Continue'' and ''Complete'' without changing any defaults when installing GPLPV it should install everything. James
Well my other two servers don''t have any issues as they run older version of 4.3. I assume that xl reboot should simulate key press acpic sending proper command to server 2012. My other servers running servers 2012 will reboot with xl reboot and they acknowledge the fact that signal was send to reboot server. On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 3:35 PM, James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au> wrote:> > > > I was testing something and xl reboot does not do anything xen states > > domain xx rebooting but it seems nothing is being send to server 2012 . > > > > That would happen if shutdownmon service wasn''t running. Can you check > that? > > Otherwise install the debug version of the drivers and send me the output > of /var/log/xen/qemu-dm-<domu name>.log after issuing the reboot. > > James >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-users
How do i get debugging with xl ? On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 3:42 PM, jacek burghardt <jaceksburghardt@gmail.com>wrote:> Well my other two servers don''t have any issues as they run older version > of 4.3. I assume that xl reboot should simulate key press acpic sending > proper command to server 2012. My other servers running servers 2012 will > reboot with xl reboot and they acknowledge the fact that signal was send to > reboot server. > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 3:35 PM, James Harper < > james.harper@bendigoit.com.au> wrote: > >> > >> > I was testing something and xl reboot does not do anything xen states >> > domain xx rebooting but it seems nothing is being send to server 2012 . >> > >> >> That would happen if shutdownmon service wasn''t running. Can you check >> that? >> >> Otherwise install the debug version of the drivers and send me the output >> of /var/log/xen/qemu-dm-<domu name>.log after issuing the reboot. >> >> James >> > >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-users
I tested xl reboot on my other server with older version of 4.3 the server 2012 rebooted and domain was destroyed and recreated . So it is clear that there is bug in latest 4.3 code On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 3:43 PM, jacek burghardt <jaceksburghardt@gmail.com>wrote:> How do i get debugging with xl ? > > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 3:42 PM, jacek burghardt < > jaceksburghardt@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Well my other two servers don''t have any issues as they run older version >> of 4.3. I assume that xl reboot should simulate key press acpic sending >> proper command to server 2012. My other servers running servers 2012 will >> reboot with xl reboot and they acknowledge the fact that signal was send to >> reboot server. >> >> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 3:35 PM, James Harper < >> james.harper@bendigoit.com.au> wrote: >> >>> > >>> > I was testing something and xl reboot does not do anything xen states >>> > domain xx rebooting but it seems nothing is being send to server 2012 . >>> > >>> >>> That would happen if shutdownmon service wasn''t running. Can you check >>> that? >>> >>> Otherwise install the debug version of the drivers and send me the >>> output of /var/log/xen/qemu-dm-<domu name>.log after issuing the reboot. >>> >>> James >>> >> >> >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-users