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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] docs: xlexample.hvm: mention the viridian setting



On 11/25/11 16:11, Ian Campbell wrote:
# HG changeset patch
# User Ian Campbell<ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
# Date 1322233890 0
# Node ID b4c07fbe3557ae501fc2d8a21b41f1b1cd5198cb
# Parent  31e71820ce93b72b0223882f6c2e1f461920bda9
docs: xlexample.hvm: mention the viridian setting.

Turning this on for Windows guests is recommended.

Actually, Hyper-V fails to boot with viridian=1 because our
viridian implementation misses features such as the virtualized
LAPIC interface.

Christoph



Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell<ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff -r 31e71820ce93 -r b4c07fbe3557 tools/examples/xlexample.hvm
--- a/tools/examples/xlexample.hvm      Fri Nov 25 14:44:10 2011 +0000
+++ b/tools/examples/xlexample.hvm      Fri Nov 25 15:11:30 2011 +0000
@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ name = "example.hvm"
  # The default behavior is to generate a new UUID each time the guest is 
started.
  #uuid = "XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX"

+# Enable Microsoft Hyper-V compatibile paravirtualisation /
+# enlightenment interfaces. Turning this on can improve Windows guest
+# performance and is therefore recommended
+#viridian = 1
+
  # Initial memory allocation (MB)
  memory = 128


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