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Re: [Xen-users] What does viridian=1 do?

To: Pekka.Panula@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] What does viridian=1 do?
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:35:16 +0300
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On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 08:52:39AM +0300, Pekka.Panula@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm wondering what does viridian=1 option actually does? I installed Xen 
> 3.4.1 from Gitco's and installed Windows 2008 R2 (standard) server, 
> 64-bit, which supposed is hyper-v aware? But looking device manager i dont 
> see anything special, still all using emulation drivers. Should i install 
> Hyper-V IC? 
>

See here for more information:
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2009-07/msg00661.html

So for faster IO you need GPLPV drivers.

-- Pasi

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