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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [XCP] new version available

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:51:02PM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 05:48:07PM +0000, Ian Pratt wrote:
>> > > > > That's cool! Is there some comparison with GPLPV drivers in case of
>> > > > > stability, speed, features and so on?
>> > > > > It looks a bit like future competition between the two driver packs?
>> > > >
>> > > > Well the major difference is that GPLPV drivers are opensource,
>> > > > and the Citrix Windows PV drivers provided in XCP are not.
>> > >
>> > > Ah, I see - too bad Citrix couldn't open source them :)
>> >
>> > They're freely distributable in binary form, but they link against various 
>> > MSFT libraries which have licenses that restrict what can be done with the 
>> > source. The binaries pass all the MSFT class-specific WHQL tests and are 
>> > signed so you don't get annoying pop-ups when installing them.
>>
>> They work fine on bare-bone Xen? I remember seeing in the past data
>> about having to add some extra keys in XenStore for this. Is that still
>> the case?
>>
>
> Patches to support XCP Windows PV drivers are already in xen-3.4-testing.hg 
> and xen-unstable.hg.
>
> "xend: Add support for XCP Windows PV drivers":
> http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-unstable.hg?rev/be9b8be3c648
> http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-3.4-testing.hg?rev/d4e5058ce390
>
> "Fix clock for XCP Windows PV drivers on restore":
> http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-unstable.hg?rev/db8a985693f7
> http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-3.4-testing.hg?rev/ae60cbc5bb6d
>
> I think there's still windows registry hack needed for them to work..
> or did the latest xcp release (0.1.1) remove this from the pv drivers?

The registry change is no longer necessary.


Keith Coleman

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