[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [Xen-devel] [PATCH 17 of 17 v3] docs: improve documantion of xl's viridian option
# HG changeset patch # User Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> # Date 1322576399 0 # Node ID 5b91e49d5c442ebb6dd271513764b0c8c414361b # Parent 447407a7984d2f2484321418ce8b1991f7f2bd51 docs: improve documantion of xl's viridian option Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> diff -r 447407a7984d -r 5b91e49d5c44 docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5 --- a/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5 Tue Nov 29 14:17:27 2011 +0000 +++ b/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5 Tue Nov 29 14:19:59 2011 +0000 @@ -555,7 +555,13 @@ Windows L<http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XenWi 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?) +of Microsoft Windows guests from Windows Vista and Windows 2008 +onwards and setting this option for such guests is strongly +recommended. This option should be harmless for other versions of +Windows (although it won't give any benefit) and the majority of other +non-Windows OSes. However it is known to be incompatible with some +other Operating Systems and in some circumstance can prevent Xen's own +paravirtualisation interfaces for HVM guests from being used. =back _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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