Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 05 of 15 v2] docs: add a document describing the xl cfg file syntax

[Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Campbell
> Sent: 25 November 2011 15:06
> To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Ian Jackson; Paul Durrant
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 05 of 15 v2] docs: add a document
> describing the xl cfg file syntax
> 
> Paul,
> 
> On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 14:49 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >
> > +=item B<viridian=BOOLEAN>
> > +
> > +Turns on or off the exposure of MicroSoft Hyper-V (AKA viridian)
> > +compatible enlightenments to the guest.  These can improve
> > performance
> > +of Microsoft Windows guests (XXX which versions of Windows
> benefit?)
> 
> Is there anything else we can say here? What are the first versions
> of Windows which benefit from this?
> 

Ian,

  I think that's probably good enough. AFAIK viridian enlightenments came in 
with the 6.0 kernel in Vista/2K8 but having the flag on should do no harm for 
older kernels.

  Paul

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