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RE: [Xen-users] GPLPV Drivers and WIN2000

> > I have a problem with the GPLPV drivers in a WIN2000 SP4 HVM guest.
> > Dom0 is running XEN 3.2.1 in a Gentoo box on a 2x Opteron 2212
> mainboard
> > (4 CPU cores total). I should say, that all of my guests are working,
> no
> > matter if LINUX guests or Windows guests.
> > At the moment i'm about tweaking the guests to get more performance on
> the
> > windows boxes.
> >
> > I followed the installation procedure as described, but only one PCI
> > device seems to be installed. Several other devices appear in the
> device
> > manager with a yellow question mark:
> > Xen vif device #0, Xen vbd device #768, Xen vfb device #0 and some
> more
> >
> >
> > I tried installing the drivers manually using the device manager, no
> > success. I pointed the installation wizard to the INF files of the XEN
> PV
> > Drivers directory, no success.
> > No drivers are accepted.
> > With WIN2003 Server everything is fine.
> > Only WIN2000 seems to make trouble, although WIN2000 is mentioned (and
> > tagged) during installation of the XEN PV driver package as valid
> > operating system.
> > Does anybody have any ideas? I tried version 0.9.10 and also
> 0.9.11-pre11.
>
> Are you booting with /GPLPV specified in the boot.ini? I have never
> tested the drivers under Windows 2000, I added support at someones
> request, building them as part of the binary distribution and making
> changes to get them to compile, but that's as far as I got.
>
> James

Yes, i did.
Do you know of someone who has the GPLPV drivers running on WIN2000?

Stephan
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