On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 06:13:39AM -0400, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > for example: in Windows(let's say XP) the Device manager will open a > > > "new device" wizard and the device will appear as an unrecognized > > > device. On a cluster with hundreds of such VMs, If that cluster has > > > a health monitoring service it may show all the VMs in a "not healthy" > > > state. > > Is this just a hypothesis, or is there really such broken monitoring > software?
Marcel? > > > > This patch is a workaround to not show pvpanic in UI to avoid the > > > problem in Windows. > > It's not a workaround, it is a proper bugfix. > > What versions of Windows did you test it on? Did it hide the New > Hardware wizard properly (I think it appears only on XP/2003)? Windows XP. I didn't see hardware wizard, maybe it is because I tested the same VM before and XP remembered the device and wasn't boring to prompt again. Tested in a freshly installed Windows XP, the device is hidden but the hardware wizard is shown. _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios
