From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "James Harper" Subject: RE: GPLPV drivers 0.9.12-pre9 upload Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:49:42 +1100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: James Harper , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, xen-users@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org > 1. Windows 2000 is no longer included in the binary distribution. It > didn't work. >=20 > 2. qemu network and disk adapters are disabled, but will now appear as > having failed due to a change in the hiding code. This is cosmetic > (you'll get a warning on start that a service or driver failed to start) > but the effect is the same, except you won't get strange things > happening as a result of pci devices just disappearing - I was seeing > delays in places during startup and shutdown. >=20 > 3. If you are using the latest Xen 3.3.1 hg (maybe 3.3.0 too?), the > qemu_disable_patches.diff patch applied to the ioemu-remote git repo > (after 'make tools' has downloaded it, or after you've updated it to the > latest) will completely remove the ide disks and network interfaces, > leaving the cdroms as emulated by qemu. This is how things should be > going forward - qemu cdrom's means you get eject and virtual image swap > etc, and performance on a cdrom is hardly critical. Hopefully these > patches will make it into Xen 3.4. >=20 > 4. Please test in a dev environment. I haven't broken my test servers > during upgrade or anything, but testing first is just common sense. >=20 > 5. 64 bit block addressing is in place but not really tested. If you > have block devices >1TB that didn't work previously, please give it a go > and let me know. >=20 > 6. Save+restore is working for me at the moment, please report any > issues. >=20 Forgot one important thing. /GPLPV isn't required anymore. Use /NOGPLPV to disable the device drivers, or boot into safe mode which will also disable them. James