Re: [Xen-users] Release 0.9.5 of GPL PV Drivers for Windows

[Ruslan Sivak <russ@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ruslan Sivak wrote:
> > I finally got it to work.  The drivers were not being installed even 
> > on with testsigning on (didn't seem to make a difference).  I 
> > installed the drivers, got a warning but told it to ignore it, but 
> > the drivers were still not showing up as installed in device 
> > manager.  I think installed them manually through the device manager 
> > before rebooting and then set up the boot entries.  This made it 
> > work, but the performance seems pretty bad.  Originally I was 
> > averaging around 70mb/s on a system that does about 340 MB/s as 
> > measured by hdparm -t.  After installing the drivers, I'm not 
> > averaging 18MB/s.  Did I do something wrong?  I though these drivers 
> > were supposed to give better performance, not worse?
> > This is my disk line if it helps:
> >
> > disk = [ 'phy:/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-lvol2,hda,w', 
> > 'file:/mnt/isos/en_windows_server_2008_datacenter_enterprise_standard_x86_dvd_X14-26710.iso,ioemu:hdc:cdrom,r'] 
> I just installed the drivers on Win2k3 x64, and I'm seeing the same 
> slowdown.
> Russ
Also the shutdown monitor won't work.  I'm getting "The application 
failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the 
application."
Russ

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