CR 6746380 has been corrected in the Sun xVM
Guest Additions (Early Access 3) release.
When applying the Windows PV drivers,
you can now select the FAT or the NTFS disk
format in the format dialog install screen.
On 02/18/09 12:06, Russ Blaine wrote:
The link has changed; it has moved to
https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_SMI-Site/en_US/-/USD/viewproductdetail-start?productref=sun-xvm-guestadd-ea3-...@cds-cds_smi
Russ Blaine wrote:
I'm pleased to announce the availability of Windows PV drivers for
32-bit Windows guests. They are officially called "Sun xVM Guest
Additions" and they can be downloaded here:
https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_SMI-Site/en_US/-/USD/viewproductdetail-start?productref=sun-xvm-guest_add-...@cds-cds_smi
This is an "Early Access" release; some bugs and issues remain and are
being worked on. Things are much faster with these drivers than on a
pure HVM domain but we haven't yet analyzed or optimized the performance.
A few gotchas to be aware of:
1) Do not use on a domain with FAT-formatted disks; the drivers can
cause a blue screen after the first post-install reboot. This is being
actively debugged; the bug ID is:
6746380 guest additions crash windows guests with FAT-formatted disks
2) Externally initiated shutdown (e.g. "virsh shutdown" in dom0) has
not yet been implemented. Without drivers, an external shutdown causes
instant domain destruction. After the drivers are installed, shutdown
commands will be ignored. This will be fixed; the bug ID is:
6704506 need shutdown support for windows xenbus driver
3) save, restore, and live migration are not supported in this
release. We have this working internally, so expect to see a new
version with this capability made available soon.
And something which may be useful to some of you: after a reboot, the
guest will report its IP address back to dom0 via xenbus. This can be
examined from dom0:
-bash-3.2# /usr/lib/xen/bin/xenstore-read /local/domain/3/ipaddr/0
10.6.71.204
[This is an uncommited interface so it could change in a future release.]
Enjoy! These are long overdue; it took us much longer than I had
hoped to jump through all of the required legal and bureaucratic hoops.
- Russ
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