Re: Options to use winxp and netbsd together with xen

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 04:43:17PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 07:50:06PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 10:20:00AM +0300, pierre-philipp braun wrote:
> > > 2. try to install the GPLPV drivers before the conversion --
> > > https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Windows_GplPv
> > 
> > A tiny doubt: Does winxp run paravritualized? I thought it's hvm so PV
> > drivers shouldn't be needed. No?
> 
> It gives a performance boost on some workloads.

It *may* also avoid a bluescreen at boot due to incompatibility of the
drivers for the previous platform's emulated hardware with the Xen
platform's emulated hardware.  It's worth a shot.

Thor