Re: AW: [Xen-users] PV- Drivers for Windows (XP, 2003 Server)

["Ryan Burke" <burke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Thursday 10 January 2008 09:20:50 am Boudreau Luc wrote:
>> I found em in the XenExpress package. There's a tool.iso file hidden in
>> some Linux tools archive that comes with XenExpress. Open the iso,
>> inside
>> there's the setup file for the PV drivers. We use XenSource bundeled in
>> CentOS 5 so I don't know if installing the PV drivers in a custom built
>> Kernel or installing the driver with a dom0 that was compiled from
>> source
>> will cause any problems. I installed them and it's stable for me as far
>> as
>> I know.
>
> Yes, but is it actually doing something? As an experiment, I loaded the
> Windows PV tools from XenSource 3.2. It installed fine, rebooted fine, but
> when I went into the Device manager, it said about the 'XenSource PV SCSI
> Host Adapter' that 'This device cannot start (Code 10)'.
>

I believe someone from XenSource explained that the Windows PV drivers
require communication with some daemon that is installed along with
XenExpress in order to be active and actually work correctly.





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