Re: [Xen-API] XCP 1.1 and Intel i350 Gigabit

[Agi Subagio <agi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for reply... I will read it first.
Do you mean p2v drivers is in xs-tools.iso?
fyi, all of my W2K3 VMs use 2-4 VCPUs.

On 18/03/2013 5:04 PM, Denis Cardon wrote:
> Hi Agi,
>
> > I have a new server with onboard Intel i350 Gigabit Ethernet, but XCP
> > 1.1 did not detect that card. Previously I install XCP 1.6 on it, but my
> > VM (Windows) always hang randomly and hard to reboot/shutdown via
> > XenCenter, so I want to use XCP 1.1 to that server. How to compile
> > igb-4.1.2.tar.gz source code for XCP 1.1?
> I had a issue recently with a win2k WM crashing after upgrade to 
> XCP1.6. There has been an issue with win2k win2k3 vms that is 
> explained in the post below (long post).
> http://forums.citrix.com/thread.jspa?threadID=314477&start=105&tstart=0
>
> Summary :
> * For win2k3 and above vms, upgrade p2v drivers.
> * For win2k vms, short workaround is to have only one vcpus in the VM. 
> (indeed, the new driver does not want to install on win2k per 
> citrix/windows EOL policy). If you definitly need more than one vcpus 
> in your win2k vm, you'll have to tweak a little more I guess.
> If you still want to recompile, you have to install kernel headers 
> from source iso, enable centos repo, install build tools and compile 
> your driver. But I'd recommend to give one more try to XCP 1.6.
> Cheers,
>
> Denis

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