From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: Re: [Xen-users] Xen viridian support/features Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:28:39 -0700 Message-ID: <4A68D607.10606@goop.org> References: <11B064048F34FD4094CBA16FC04BE2196072A843@ex01> <20090721072326.GN24960@edu.joroinen.fi> <20090721171533.GT24960@edu.joroinen.fi> <20090723141101.GF5235@york.uk.xensource.com> <20090723141953.GE24960@edu.joroinen.fi> <20090723142715.GG5235@york.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090723142715.GG5235@york.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Tim Deegan Cc: Nathan Eisenberg , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , "Xen-users@lists.xensource.com" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 07/23/09 07:27, Tim Deegan wrote: > At 15:19 +0100 on 23 Jul (1248362393), Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote: > >> Any plans to write support for paravirtual viridian disk/network backends? >> (I assume they have stuff like that implemented in hyper-v). >> > > I don't think anyone's doing that, but there is a choice of Xen PV > drivers for Windows that will do the job. Are the PV driver interfaces > even public? I don't remember seeing them in the hyper-v spec, though I > haven't read the latest version. > They were implicitly published, at least to some extent, in the form of the big HyperV PV driver dump for Linux. But I don't think those drivers are very featureful yet, though they claim to be planning to release more updates. J