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[win-pv-devel] Signed Windows PV Driver


  • To: Xen Windows PV Drivers Development Mailing List <win-pv-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Xen Newbie <xennewbie@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 13:55:14 +0800
  • Delivery-date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 05:55:20 +0000
  • List-id: Developer list for the Windows PV Drivers subproject <win-pv-devel.lists.xenproject.org>

I've asked the questions at the Xen users mailing list but nobody has interest to offer me a help. If the questions are too basic and should not be raised in this devel mailing list, please forgive me.

I want to install a signed PV drivers in my HVM windows guest since I learnt from the web that a test signed driver may lead to conflicts with some Windows applications.

I studied a lot from the Xen project pages and Xen mailing list for users and pv driver development. I am confused since some of the information seems to be out-dated.Â

I consolidated what I learnt so far and would like to seek for help to clarify the following conecpts before I make my next move:

1) Those signed Windows drivers resided on univention seemed to be already out-dated.
2) Those PV drivers provided on http://www.xenproject.org/developers/teams/windows-pv-drivers.html requires my own compilation. The drivers compiled are test signed and requires setting the Windows to test mode.
3) The PV drivers provided by Citrix XenServer seems to work also with Xen Hypervisor but I'm not sure whether there is any license conflict.
4) There are Microsoft signed PV drivers provided by Oracle VM but I need to use Oracle VM as my Domain 0 in order to use them.

Can anyone confirm my understanding as fore-mentioned?

I want to make a PC as a HTPC/NAS combo with HTPC part played by a Windows 7 (Windows 10 preferred if feasible) PV HVM guest.

I'm now stuck at the planning stage of Windows PV drivers. I don't want to compile anything and set the Windows to test mode.

So can I just download the PV drivers from Citrix and installed to the guest? Will it work with my Xen 4.5/4.6 Hypervisor with Ubuntu 15.04 Domain 0?

I'll be very grateful if anyone can help me.

Regards
Lok
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