RE: [Xen-users] GPLPV Drivers and WIN2000

["Stephan Menger" <stephan.menger@xxxxxx>]

> > I have a problem with the GPLPV drivers in a WIN2000 SP4 HVM guest.

> > Dom0 is running XEN 3.2.1 in a Gentoo box on a 2x Opteron 2212

> mainboard

> > (4 CPU cores total). I should say, that all of my guests are working,

> no

> > matter if LINUX guests or Windows guests.

> > At the moment i'm about tweaking the guests to get more performance on

> the

> > windows boxes.

> >

> > I followed the installation procedure as described, but only one PCI

> > device seems to be installed. Several other devices appear in the

> device

> > manager with a yellow question mark:

> > Xen vif device #0, Xen vbd device #768, Xen vfb device #0 and some

> more

> >

> >

> > I tried installing the drivers manually using the device manager, no

> > success. I pointed the installation wizard to the INF files of the XEN

> PV

> > Drivers directory, no success.

> > No drivers are accepted.

> > With WIN2003 Server everything is fine.

> > Only WIN2000 seems to make trouble, although WIN2000 is mentioned (and

> > tagged) during installation of the XEN PV driver package as valid

> > operating system.

> > Does anybody have any ideas? I tried version 0.9.10 and also

> 0.9.11-pre11.

>

> Are you booting with /GPLPV specified in the boot.ini? I have never

> tested the drivers under Windows 2000, I added support at someones

> request, building them as part of the binary distribution and making

> changes to get them to compile, but that's as far as I got.

>

> James

Yes, i did.

Do you know of someone who has the GPLPV drivers running on WIN2000?

Stephan

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