Re: [Xen-users] HVM shutdown

[Stefan Below <stefanbelow@xxxxxx>]

Fajar A. Nugraha schrieb:
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Stefan Below <stefanbelow@xxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > Hi,
> >
> > is there any option for a graceful HVM shutdown without PV drivers?
> >
> > There was a patch on th xen list which enabled acpi power off for HVM
> > domains, but is it already included in Xen 3.3.1 or Xen 3.4?
> >
> > Or is there any other nice way for shutting down hvm guests from dom0?
> >     
> For Windows HVM guest you can try James Harper's GPLPV. You can choose
> to install only the shutdown monitor service (without xen-net and
> xen-vbd drivers) if you want, but I suggest you install all of them as
> the PV drivers increase performance greatly.
>   
I know, but i did a try with the gplpv drivers and windows xp and i had 
some strange performance issues ( DomU locked up for a couple of 
seconds, IO performace was very worde and so one). Its a productive 
system, so i need a stable version. 

> For Linux HVM domUs, you need to find PV drivers. On RHEL5.3 it's
> included on standard kernel. I believe the one responsible for
> monitoring Xen shutdown request is xen-platform-pci.ko
>   
Thanks, i will give it a try.

> Regards,
>
> Fajar
>
>   

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