Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [XCP] new version available

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 08:30:40PM +0100, Markus Schuster wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 January 2010 18:57:11 Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 07:54:08PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 03:36:16PM +0100, Markus Schuster wrote:
> > > > Dave Scott wrote:
> > > > > * PV drivers check for magic strings in xenstore removed
> > > >
> > > > Scott, one question: Can the Windows PV drivers be used with "normal"
> > > > XEN or is some additional infrastructure from XCP necessary?
> > >
> > > Yes they can, with some patches to Xen:
> > > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-11/msg00932.html
> > > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-12/msg00593.html
> > 
> > These patches are already in xen-3.4-testing.hg and in xen-unstable.hg, so
> >  they'll be in Xen 3.4.3 and 4.0.0 releases.
> 
> That's cool! Is there some comparison with GPLPV drivers in case of 
> stability, 
> speed, features and so on?
> It looks a bit like future competition between the two driver packs?
> 

Well the major difference is that GPLPV drivers are opensource, 
and the Citrix Windows PV drivers provided in XCP are not.

Feel free to benchmark and compare :)

-- Pasi


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