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RE: AW: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] Re: Xen 4.0 - Support for Citrix WHQ

To: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Subject: RE: AW: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] Re: Xen 4.0 - Support for Citrix WHQL-certified Windows PV drivers
From: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 15:01:14 +0100
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Thread-topic: AW: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] Re: Xen 4.0 - Support for Citrix WHQL-certified Windows PV drivers
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pasi Kärkkäinen [mailto:pasik@xxxxxx]
> Sent: 07 September 2010 14:46
> To: Paul Durrant
> Cc: Giovanni Bellac; Ian Campbell; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: AW: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] Re: Xen 4.0 - Support
> for Citrix WHQL-certified Windows PV drivers
> 
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 01:26:04PM +0100, Paul Durrant wrote:
> >    Presumably the tools are creating a /local/domain/3/console/0
> entry if you
> >    don't specify VNC; it's another example of the same issue you
> saw before.
> >
> >    The Citrix PV drivers are not routinely tested on xen-unstable;
> you need
> >    to tweak your tools to give them the environment they expect
> (which is
> >    that the only thing under /local/domain/XXX/device are vbd and
> vif nodes).
> >
> 
> I guess the behaviour of Citrix PV drivers has changed recently?
> The drivers from XCP 0.1.x worked OK on Xen 4.0 earlier..
> 

I don't think so. I think the fe close code has been static for a while, 
whereas the tools, mostly libxl, have seen massive churn of late.

  Paul

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