[Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH 0/4] boot windows server 2003:

["Xu, Anthony" <anthony.xu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Windows server 2003 sp1 can be installed and boot on top of XEN/VTI.

-- You must use Windows server 2003 sp1 or above, Windows server 2003 can't 
boot 
on native Montecito due to I/D cache sync issue, below windows is referring to 
windows server 2003 sp1.

--As we know, qemu doesn't provide SCSI drive emulation, so we need to install 
windows on IDE drive, there are two ways.
 1. If you have an IPF platform with IDE drive, you are very lucky, you can 
install 
windows natively.
 2. Otherwise, you need to install windows on XEN/VTI, it is very slow.

--When you installed windows, there maybe a boot parameter "/redirect" which 
redirect Emergency Management Services (EMS) console to serial port. EMS will 
poll serial port frequently and make boot slow. So please remove the "redirect".

--You must use the latest guest FW to boot windows, which is Flash.fd.2006.07.25

--currently boot windows is slow, it cost about 15 minutes on my box. There is 
a known cause, windows use 8k page size and 16M page size on the same region 
simultaneously, current solution is very simple, when guest inserting 16M TLB,
XEN only inserts 8K TLB, which is needed. This causes many tlb miss faults 
injected 
to guest. I'm working on this issue. Yes there are definitely other issues, You 
are appreciated to put your effort on windows performance.

Thanks,
Anthony 

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