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Re: [Xen-users] gplpv drivers



Did you also install the xen reboot service? Since windows can't
interprete the external shutdown request, you need a specific service
who listens to it.. this is usually included in the gplpv driver but
iirc has to be installed seperately..

2013/2/18 jacek burghardt <jaceksburghardt@xxxxxxxxx>:
> I was testing something and xl reboot does not do anything xen states domain
> xx rebooting but it seems nothing is being send to server 2012 .
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 3:26 PM, James Harper
> <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > Also, don't get your hopes too high on the new gplpv drivers cause
>> > afaik James uses a Win7 for testing his drivers and I haven't heard
>> > from anyone testing them on Win2012 yet. But never the less I added
>> > him in cc, maybe he can clerify the situation a bit more.
>> >
>>
>> 2012 works (as in boots and runs) but I haven't done any performance
>> testing yet.
>>
>> Windows 8 has a feature where by default when you say shutdown it actually
>> hibernates instead, and I'm having a bit of trouble getting hibernate
>> working (or specifically, resume from hibernate). I think it won't actually
>> matter too much because on resume from hibernate, windows uses bios calls to
>> load the crash dump and this is horribly slow because it goes via qemu not
>> gplpv so most people would turn off the feature, but I'd still like to have
>> it working so a default install of win8 works and I don't get emails asking
>> why it crashed etc.
>>
>> James
>>
>>
>

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