Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] Xen viridian support/features

[Florian Manschwetus <florianmanschwetus@xxxxxx>]

Am 24.07.2009 21:31, schrieb Andrew Lyon:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Florian
> Manschwetus<florianmanschwetus@xxxxxx>  wrote:
> > Uhm, just to get clear in this topic,
> > the great work of James is not that useful as it supposed in this thread. It
> > leaks reliable support for exactly those Windows Versions with best Hyper-V
> > integrations.
> > So there is the choice to exploit Hyper-V guest integration services or
> > absolutely ugly hacking around in a win2008 x64 guest policies with a real
> > great chance to get the guest perfectly and unrecoverable meshed up.
> > So it would be great at least to have things like shutdown notification out
> > of the box, as it will be with an viridian interface implementation
> When you say "shutdown notification" I assume you mean dom0 telling a
> hvm guest to shutdown , in which case "xm trigger<domid>  power" seems
> to do the job with no additional drivers or services required, and
> should work on most operating systems.
>
> Perhaps I misunderstood..
Hm no it is fine but when I shutdown dom0 the windows system just get 
killed (xm shutdown is issued afaik). Furthermore this won't include a 
back channel (does it work?) and not every system surely shutsdown when 
powerbutton is pressed, maybe there must be a bit configured...
Florian
> Andy
> .
> > Again if xen provides a feature using viridian API win2008 x64 guests would
> > use it without ANY modification.
> >
> > Florian
> >
> > Am 23.07.2009 23:28, schrieb Jeremy Fitzhardinge:
> > > On 07/23/09 07:27, Tim Deegan wrote:
> > > > At 15:19 +0100 on 23 Jul (1248362393), Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Any plans to write support for paravirtual viridian disk/network
> > > > > backends?
> > > > > (I assume they have stuff like that implemented in hyper-v).
> > > > I don't think anyone's doing that, but there is a choice of Xen PV
> > > > drivers for Windows that will do the job.  Are the PV driver interfaces
> > > > even public?  I don't remember seeing them in the hyper-v spec, though I
> > > > haven't read the latest version.
> > > They were implicitly published, at least to some extent, in the form of
> > > the big HyperV PV driver dump for Linux.  But I don't think those
> > > drivers are very featureful yet, though they claim to be planning to
> > > release more updates.
> > >
> > >      J
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