Re: GPLPV Drivers

[Étienne <etienne.pub%magickarpet.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 08:07:46AM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> >With some minor kludging, I've managed to get the latest GPLPV drivers to
> >work under a NetBSD dom0.
> 
> Pardon my ignorance: what is GPLPV?

http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenWindowsGplPv

"These drivers allow Windows to make use of the network and block backend
drivers in Dom0, instead of the virtual PCI devices provided by QEMU.
This gives Windows (in theory) a substantial performance boost, and most
of the testing that has been done confirms that."

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Étienne