Cole Robinson wrote:
> Laurent Léonard wrote:
>> Le mardi 07 juillet 2009 à 18:58, Pasi Kärkkäinen a écrit :
>>> On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 09:53:45AM +0200, Chris Lalancette wrote:
>>>> Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 04:50:59PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>>>>>> On 07/05/2009 08:27 AM, Guido Günther wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 06:09:01PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>> virtinst has:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "winxp":{ "label": "Microsoft Windows XP (x86)",
>>>>>>>> "acpi": False, "apic": False },
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I couldn't find any reason for this in the hg logs and
>>>>>>>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=512439
>>>>>>> The correct URL is:
>>>>>>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=533201
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>> -- Guido
>>>>>> AFAIK this was done because windows installs on xen used to choke if
>>>>>> ACPI was enabled. There is an old wiki page corroborating that here,
>>>>>> no idea if it is still relevant, or if there were other issues at
>>>>>> play:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenWindowsACPI
>>>>> I think that's obsolete and nowadays ACPI (and APIC) should be enabled
>>>>> for Xen Windows guests.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please correct me if I'm wrong.
>>>> You are probably correct, although testing (especially on things like
>>>> RHEL-5 Xen) is in order before making the change for Xen as well.
>>> I actually asked about this on xen-devel, and Keir Fraser replied that ACPI
>>> with Windows has been working properly at least since Xen 3.1.0 days.
>> I also installed Windows 2000 Server virtual machines with ACPI enabled on
>> Debian Squeeze with Xen 3.2.1 and KVM 85, no problem.
>>
>> So the attached patch should be applied to virtinst to:
>> - Enable ACPI and APIC for Windows XP
>> - Enable ACPI and APIC for Windows 2000
>> - Merge Windows XP x86 and x86_64 variants because there is no more reason to
>> have different variants for the same OS
>>
>
> Hmm, I would like to maintain the current behavior for xen < 3.1.0,
> since RHEL/CentOS is still a target and I wouldn't want to regress. We
> should be able to get this info from libvirt and the ACPI defaults
> accordingly, I'll test it out shortly.
>
I've pushed changes which enable APIC and ACPI for XP and 2000 for
everything except Xen < 3.1.0.
Thanks,
Cole
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