I'm pleased to announce the availability of Windows PV drivers for 32-bit Windows guests. They are officially called "Sun xVM Guest Additions" and they can be downloaded here:
https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_SMI-Site/en_US/-/USD/[EMAIL PROTECTED] This is an "Early Access" release; some bugs and issues remain and are being worked on. Things are much faster with these drivers than on a pure HVM domain but we haven't yet analyzed or optimized the performance. A few gotchas to be aware of: 1) Do not use on a domain with FAT-formatted disks; the drivers can cause a blue screen after the first post-install reboot. This is being actively debugged; the bug ID is: 6746380 guest additions crash windows guests with FAT-formatted disks 2) Externally initiated shutdown (e.g. "virsh shutdown" in dom0) has not yet been implemented. Without drivers, an external shutdown causes instant domain destruction. After the drivers are installed, shutdown commands will be ignored. This will be fixed; the bug ID is: 6704506 need shutdown support for windows xenbus driver 3) save, restore, and live migration are not supported in this release. We have this working internally, so expect to see a new version with this capability made available soon. And something which may be useful to some of you: after a reboot, the guest will report its IP address back to dom0 via xenbus. This can be examined from dom0: -bash-3.2# /usr/lib/xen/bin/xenstore-read /local/domain/3/ipaddr/0 10.6.71.204 [This is an uncommited interface so it could change in a future release.] Enjoy! These are long overdue; it took us much longer than I had hoped to jump through all of the required legal and bureaucratic hoops. - Russ ----------------------------------------------------- Russ Blaine | Solaris Kernel | [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
