[Xen-users] RE: Xen PV drivers

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

> Hello James,
> 
> first of all thanks for your effort in writing the PV drivers for
Windows.
> Shame that there are at least 3 working PV drivers sets from different
> vendors
> but none open-source.
> 
> I am looking for a solution of graceful shutdown of Windows domains
and
> found
> your drivers.  I'm wondering if installing the ShutdownMon service is
> enough
> or I have to install also the rest of the drivers for making it
working.
> 

You would need to install the xenpci driver (xenpci.sys) too, which is
what communicates with Dom0. ShutdownMon connects to a 'socket' (of
sorts) created by the xenpci driver and listens for events. Probably
best to either get the source using hg or wait for the next binary
release (as soon as Andy is happy for the net drivers to get some
further testing).

On the systems I am testing on, xenvbd and xennet work great, although I
am only testing on AMD CPU's with 1 vcpu per DomU. Last time I tested
with >1 vcpu things broke, and I have reports from a few versions ago
that Intel CPU's didn't work, but I need some more testing done to
follow up on that.

James


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