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RE: [Xen-users] SMP support in Windows domU

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Subject: RE: [Xen-users] SMP support in Windows domU
From: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 11:50:09 +0200
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> bdubas@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: 14 May 2007 10:48
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [Xen-users] SMP support in Windows domU
> 
> 
> I want to install drivers for Windows as you describe...
> 
> > The right solution is to install a Para-virtual driver, but 
> for Windows,
> > you can't just build one yourself (unless you are 
> experienced in Windows
> > driver design), so you need one that matches your Xen 
> version (easiest
> way
> > to achieve that is to install a package with Xen and the PV 
> driver, such
> 
> > as XenExpress). The para-virtual driver will install as a 
> device driver
> in > Windows, but instead of talking to a virtualized "true"
> > network device, it just packs up the data to go on the 
> network and sends
> > it directly to the Dom0 network backend driver.

I haven't myself done this. I think you need to remove the "ioemu" from the 
network device. 

And you may have to have two disks (one to boot from that uses the "ioemu" 
model, and one that you use for applications/data that uses the PV driver). 

--
Mats
> 
> 
> --
> ASEC S.A.
> Bartłomiej Dubas
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Petersson,
> Mats
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 11:36 AM
> To: Bartlomiej Dubas; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [Xen-users] SMP support in Windows domU
> 
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> > bdubas@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: 14 May 2007 10:34
> > To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [Xen-users] SMP support in Windows domU
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks Mats,
> > 
> > What kind of entry I should have in quest config. Should I 
> left it the
> > same as is or pas them without qemu option?
> 
> What is it you want to achieve. Your config looks pretty much 
> like the one
> I'm using. 
> 
> --
> Mats
> > 
> > My carnet config looks like this:
> > disk            = [ 'phy:/dev/raid-0/serpiko,ioemu:hda,w' ]
> > memory          = 512
> > vcpus           = 2
> > cpus            = "4-5"
> > builder         = 'hvm'
> > device_model    = '/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
> > kernel  = '/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader'
> > name            = 'win2003'
> > vif             = [ 'type=ioemu,bridge=xenbr0' ]
> > stdvga          = 0
> > sdl             = 0
> > vnc             = 1
> > vncviewer       = 0
> > ne2000          = 0
> > localtime       = 0
> > on_poweroff     = 'destroy'
> > on_reboot       = 'restart'
> > on_crash        = 'restart'
> > boot            = 'c'
> > acpi            = 1
> > apic            = 1
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > ASEC S.A.
> > Bartłomiej Dubas
> > 
> > 
> > 
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