Re: [Xen-users] Release 0.9.5 of GPL PV Drivers for Windows

["James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

can you try running it froa command prompt?
Do you have .net framework 2.0 installed?

-----Original Message-----
From: "Ruslan Sivak"<russ@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 7/06/08 9:50:15 AM
To: "James Harper"<james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"<xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "jim 
burns"<jim_burn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Release 0.9.5 of GPL PV Drivers for Windows

Ruslan Sivak wrote:
>
>>
>> I finally got it to work.  The drivers were not being installed even 
>> on with testsigning on (didn't seem to make a difference).  I 
>> installed the drivers, got a warning but told it to ignore it, but 
>> the drivers were still not showing up as installed in device 
>> manager.  I think installed them manually through the device manager 
>> before rebooting and then set up the boot entries.  This made it 
>> work, but the performance seems pretty bad.  Originally I was 
>> averaging around 70mb/s on a system that does about 340 MB/s as 
>> measured by hdparm -t.  After installing the drivers, I'm not 
>> averaging 18MB/s.  Did I do something wrong?  I though these drivers 
>> were supposed to give better performance, not worse?
>> This is my disk line if it helps:
>>
>> disk = [ 'phy:/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-lvol2,hda,w', 
>> 'file:/mnt/isos/en_windows_server_2008_datacenter_enterprise_standard_x86_dvd_X14-26710.iso,ioemu:hdc:cdrom,r']
>>  
>>
>>
>>
>
> I just installed the drivers on Win2k3 x64, and I'm seeing the same 
> slowdown.
> Russ
>

Also the shutdown monitor won't work.  I'm getting "The application 
failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the 
application."

Russ

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