Re: [kvm-devel] Windows PV driver for KVM

[Jiang, Y. <yun...@in...>]

Avi Kivity <mailto:av...@qu...> wrote:
> Jiang, Yunhong wrote:
>> I noticed there is a windows PV driver based on virtIO in
>> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=180599
>> 
>> But when I enable the driver in guest, the guest will hang. I'm using
>> changeset around April, 18. Since the driver is created in March, I
>> assume the changeset in Apri should be ok.
>> 
>> Are there any special action needed to enable the PV driver in
windows?
>> Have anyone tried it recently?
>> 
> 
> We are using it in production.  What HAL is the guest using?  Are you
> running with smp? 

The HAL is ACPI multipprocessor PC. 
It is a UP guest. But I do notice one thing strange. When I use device
manager->Processors, I see a lot of CPU listed. But it is really a UP
system and I can only get one cpu in the task manager->performance
window. Not sure if that's the reason of the hang.

-- Yunhong Jiang

> 
> --
> Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature.