Re: [Xen-devel] GPLPV drivers 0.9.12-pre9 upload

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:25:39PM +1100, James Harper wrote:
> I've just uploaded 0.9.12-pre9. Please read the following before using:
> 
> 1. Windows 2000 is no longer included in the binary distribution. It
> didn't work.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 6. Save+restore is working for me at the moment, please report any
> issues.
> 
> Go to http://www.meadowcourt.org/downloads/ for the gplpv driver
> download and, if you want, the qemu_disable_patches.diff patch.
> 

Hmm..

$ wget "http://www.meadowcourt.org/downloads/qemu_disable_patches.diff";
--15:26:47--  http://www.meadowcourt.org/downloads/qemu_disable_patches.diff
           => `qemu_disable_patches.diff'
Resolving www.meadowcourt.org... 203.16.224.103
Connecting to www.meadowcourt.org|203.16.224.103|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
15:26:48 ERROR 404: Not Found.

Xen PV Drivers 0.9.12-pre9.exe I was able to download just fine..

-- Pasi

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