RE: [Xen-users] Windows HVM - orderly shutdown

["James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 01:32:15PM +0200, Petersson, Mats wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> > > Schober Walter
> > > Sent: 04 June 2007 12:14
> > > To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Cc: James Harper
> > > Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Windows HVM - orderly shutdown
> > >
> > > Look into that was well:
> > > http://forums.xensource.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2225
> > > Seems to be a 3.2 feature.
> >
> > That's "Xen's commercial product" version 3.2, which uses a
different
> > version of Xen source-code than the general 3.x releases. So don't
> > confuse 3.1.0 of Xen with the commercial 3.2 product - they don't
use
> > the same version numbering system.
> >
> > I'm not sure if there is a comparable feature in the Xen sources -
it
> > may require a para-virtual driver that is part of the Xen commercial
> > product.
> 
> Yes, it will require a paravirt driver in the guest. Since we're
talking
> windows here, there's no open source pv drivers available anywhere :-(
> Basically the driver will just need to monitor the appropriate node in
> xenstore to see when XenD marks it as wanting to shutdown.
> 

Couldn't Xen just trigger a fake power button press via ACPI? Windows
already has drivers for that.

James


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