Re: Options to use winxp and netbsd together with xen

2018-07-19 Thread Mayuresh
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 10:58:08AM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > It *may* also avoid a bluescreen at boot due to incompatibility of the > drivers for the previous platform's emulated hardware with the Xen > platform's emulated hardware. It's worth a shot. Thanks. Also saw an article with

Re: Options to use winxp and netbsd together with xen

2018-07-19 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 04:43:17PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 07:50:06PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 10:20:00AM +0300, pierre-philipp braun wrote: > > > 2. try to install the GPLPV drivers before the conversion -- > > >

Re: Options to use winxp and netbsd together with xen

2018-07-19 Thread Manuel Bouyer
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 07:50:06PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 10:20:00AM +0300, pierre-philipp braun wrote: > > 2. try to install the GPLPV drivers before the conversion -- > > https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Windows_GplPv > > A tiny doubt: Does winxp run paravritualized? I

Re: Extremely poor disk performance on ProLiant DL360 G5 RAID

2018-07-19 Thread maya
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 12:03:29PM +0200, Frank Wille wrote: > ...and two 550 GB SAS RAID-1 disks, configured via the BIOS and appearing > as a single SCSI disk: > ciss0 at pci7 dev 0 function 0: HP Smart Array 3 > ciss0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 16 > ciss0: 1 LD, HW rev 3, FW 5.20/5.20, 64bit

Re: Options to use winxp and netbsd together with xen

2018-07-19 Thread Mayuresh
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 10:20:00AM +0300, pierre-philipp braun wrote: > 2. try to install the GPLPV drivers before the conversion -- > https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Windows_GplPv A tiny doubt: Does winxp run paravritualized? I thought it's hvm so PV drivers shouldn't be needed. No? Mayuresh

Re: Options to use winxp and netbsd together with xen

2018-07-19 Thread Mayuresh
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 10:20:00AM +0300, pierre-philipp braun wrote: > If it is really a virtual disk conversion problem, Mayuresh, I would try > to convert it with VBoxManage instead of qemu-img, or the other way > around. Both support RAW, QCOW2 and VDI. Depending on the conversions, > the

Extremely poor disk performance on ProLiant DL360 G5 RAID

2018-07-19 Thread Frank Wille
Hi, I'm currently setting up a HP ProLiant DL360 G5 with NetBSD/amd64 8.0RC2. It has 16GB RAM... NetBSD 8.0_RC2 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Jul 3 07:13:41 UTC 2018 mkre...@mkrepro.netbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC total memory = 16381 MB avail memory = 15883 MB ...Xeon 5160 3GHz

Re: Options to use winxp and netbsd together with xen

2018-07-19 Thread pierre-philipp braun
>> Cons 2: Converting the VirtualBox vdi disk to "raw" and using it as DomU >> disk hasn't worked. It just leads to "blue screen of death". (A fresh >> installation of WinXP works, but my constraint is to carry the node locked >> software as explained above.) >> > > This *may* be just a simple