Re: [Xen-devel] [Xen-users] Xen 4.2 TODO (io and irq parameter are not evaluated by xl)

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 20:37 +0100, Dieter Bloms wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Ian, thank you for implementing this io and irq support.
> 
> On Fri, Aug 31, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 18:15 +0100, Kirk Allan wrote:
> > 
> > > > Charles, Kirk, could you comment here?
> > > 
> > > In one of my Window's vm config files, I was able to get the vm to
> > > boot using ioports=['3f8-3ff'].  My goal was to do serial debugging of
> > > the Windows vm.  I also added irq=[4] to the config file.  However, I
> > > was not able to actually get a debug session to work.  The physical
> > > machine running windbg received a string from the vm which gave me
> > > hope that it was working, but then it never received further data so
> > > the vm eventually booted without being attached to the debugger.
> > 
> > Thanks, the question was whether it would be useful to implement the
> >     ioports = '3f8-3ff'
> >     irq = 4
> > syntax as well as the
> >     ioports = ['3f8-3ff']
> >     irq = [4]
> > but it looks like you are actually using the array version anyway?
> 
> I use this syntax with xm:
> 
> ioports=['0378-037a']
> irq=[5]
> 
> and it works good.

Great, thanks for confirming.

Ian.



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