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Russ Blaine wrote:
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/viewproductdetail-start?productref=sun-xvm-guest_add-...@cds-cds_smi
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
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