Hi Dustin, Please follow the mailing list for xen-users as there's a 0.9.0 version of the drivers.
The binary releases never need compilation. I guess you are missing a point here. The only possibility that you would need to compile is if you download the daily source code from the mercurial repository, but then even it's a trivial task as you just say "bld" in the root directory of the driver source code, after installing the latest WDK. Emre On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Dustin Henning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apparently a James Harper in Australia has been working > on PV drivers for Windows on GPL Xen for some time. I don't know if this > link will work for others, but it looks like it should (though probably not > permanently): > > > http://markmail.org/search/?q=WindowsXenPV-0.8.9.zip#query:WindowsXenPV-0.8.9.zip+page:1+mid:gmf4kraasqdxxamm+state:facets > > I downloaded his latest work, WindowsXenPV-0.8.9.zip, but > apparently compilation is required. I know Windows drivers and programs > don't have to be different (on account of Windows) the way they do on Linux > (because of the many different distros), so I am not sure why compilation is > required unless it is somehow related to the version of Xen running on the > host system potentially offering up paravirtualization in a different way. > I am not sure on this because the directions are slightly vague and if I > read them properly, source code for the version of Xen in question is not > mentioned. Anyway, I am curious as to whether or not anyone can point me > toward a these drivers in an already compiled state. I don't know if they > would be included in any certain repository of which I am unaware or whether > it is more likely that they simply don't exist (yet). As I am running F7, I > am also curious as to whether or not Fedora's custom Xen kernels would even > support the PV capabilities on HVMs. I say on HVMs because it is my > understanding that the Windows machine decides which drivers to load (and > which devices to detect) based on a boot switch in the VM OS and I haven't > seen anything indicating a separate Xen setup for full PV. > > I ask because I would love to download binary drivers and > have a go at this, but actually building it all is a bit more complicated > and time consuming for me (especially if I'm re-inventing the wheel), as > I've never compiled anything in Windows and don't have any of the necessary > software readily available (free to download, but I don't have any seriously > high speed access). I also don't know whether it is possible that the > Fedora team (or any third party) would have any interest in compiling these > drivers or making them available even if someone else did the work since > they are for Windows and would certainly require manual installation after > download/(yum) "install". It would be possible (though far from automated) > to mount the VM partition and copy the directory tree to it, so downloading > them directly to the Dom0 doesn't seem like a problem to me, but downloading > them on the DomU would work as well if they were available some other way. > I would love to find out that the version of Xen doesn't matter for PV > drivers (beyond being above 3.0 or whatever), that the Fedora version is > standard in regards to PV, that a compiled version is available because of > that, and that one can download it from URL X as such, but I am rarely so > lucky. > > As an interesting aside, apparently the KVM project > includes a PV driver for Windows networking, but this (not necessarily > production ready) Xen GPLPV driver package includes not only networking, but > also block devices and a service to enable the xm shutdown and xm restart > commands. Anyway, I welcome all input. Thanks, > > Dustin > > -- > Fedora-xen mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen > > -- Emre Erenoglu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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