Gary Pennington wrote: > Hi, > > I've been investigating networking performance for Windows 2003 guests > on a Solaris dom0 and I've uncovered a couple of things which I don't > really understand and I'm looking for some explanations. > > This first question is really directed at virtinst developers... > > Windows guests have different ACPI and APIC settings depending on which > variant of Windows is to be installed: > > variant: unspecified -> ACPI: true, APIC: true > variant: winxp -> ACPI: false, APIC: false > variant: win2k -> ACPI: false, APIC: false > variant: win2k3 -> ACPI: true, APIC: true > variant: vista -> ACPI: true, APIC: true > > The question is: why don't all Windows variants have the same ACPI and APIC > settings? > > One of the motivations for the ACPI = False, was that when installing those versions of windows with ACPI enabled, the installer required manual intervention. The user had to hit F5 or something in a small time frame and specify a non-default HAL, otherwise the install would just freeze. Well, that's what I recall anyways. I can't seem to find a bz about the issue, and the hg history isn't much help. I have no idea if APIC played a part in the above issue, or why it's off for winxp or win2000. Thanks, Cole _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
