RE: [Xen-users] problem with GPLPV drivers > 0.9 in Win XP HVM

[Sebastian Reitenbach <buzzdee@xxxxxx>]

Hi James,

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Gesendet: 12.09.08 13:35:07
> An:  <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Betreff: RE: [Xen-users] problem with GPLPV drivers > 0.9 in Win XP HVM

> > 
> > But there I observed the following in the hardware list:
> > The drive was renamed from "QEMU disk" to "Xen PV VBD SCSI Disk
> Drive",
> > but the driver still was the Microsoft driver from year 2001, version:
> > 5.1.2535.0.
> > The other Xen devices, Network card, PCI, Stub and EMU devices, are
> using
> > the Xen 0.8.9 driver.
> > Is that right that for the harddisk, the Microsoft driver is used?
> > I was also expecting a Xen driver there.
> > 
> 
> GPLPV provides a driver for vbd, which is implemented as a windows
> scsiport miniport driver. Windows queries every scsi address on the
> scsiport driver, and xenvbd tells it that there is a single disk there.
> Windows then provides a driver for the disk that it finds.
> 
> I hope that makes some sense :)
Thanks for the explanation, sounds reasonable.
I just wanted to make sure that everything is fine here.

kind regards
Sebastian


> 
> James
> 


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