Re: [Xen-users] Very bad network performance between domU and dom0

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ryan Burke wrote:
>>>> Can you give me anyhints on how to do this?
> 
> Klaus,
> 
> Here are some hints:
> 
> 
> Instructions to get Windows drivers from XenExpress:
> 
> 1. Download XenEnterprise
> 2. Open the ISO with WinRAR to explore.
> 3. Open the "packages" directory.
> 4. Extract the pvdrivers-win.tar.bz2
> 5. Close WinRAR and open the pvdrivers-win.tar.bz2 with WinRAR.
> 6. Follow the directories (opt/xensource/packages/iso/)
> 7. Extract the xswindrivers.iso
> 
> //I haven't gone beyond this step. So I'm just guessing
> 
> 8. Burn the drivers to a CD and install from the CD.
>    -or-
>    Extract the drivers with WinRAR and attempt to install from a folder.

Hi Ryan,

thanks for this set of instructions.
I was able to obtain the xswindrivers.iso file that way and install
it into my virtual Windows XP machine. Unfortunately, when trying to
reboot Windows immediately complained that it could not read from
the hard disk, even though I did change the 'vif' and 'disk' config
lines to

vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3e:00:00:66, bridge=xenbr0' ]
disk = [ 'file:/Data/xen/bat-xp.img,hda,w' ]

Actually I wouldn't even need to change the disk access method,
because access to the disk works well as it is (with hardware
virtualization). All I need is better network performance.

Is there a way to install only the PV network driver, leaving the
disk driver alone?
Or am I doing something else wrong here?

Klaus

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