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From: Dieter Bloms <dieter@bloms.de>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen 4.2 TODO (io and irq parameter are
 not evaluated by xl)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 21:37:47 +0200
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To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Charles Arnold <CARNOLD@suse.com>, Kirk Allan <kallan@suse.com>, Dieter Bloms <xensource.com@bloms.de>, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>, "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
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Hi,

Ian, thank you for implementing this io and irq support.

On Fri, Aug 31, Ian Campbell wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 18:15 +0100, Kirk Allan wrote:
> 
> > > Charles, Kirk, could you comment here?
> > 
> > In one of my Window's vm config files, I was able to get the vm to
> > boot using ioports=['3f8-3ff'].  My goal was to do serial debugging of
> > the Windows vm.  I also added irq=[4] to the config file.  However, I
> > was not able to actually get a debug session to work.  The physical
> > machine running windbg received a string from the vm which gave me
> > hope that it was working, but then it never received further data so
> > the vm eventually booted without being attached to the debugger.
> 
> Thanks, the question was whether it would be useful to implement the
> 	ioports = '3f8-3ff'
> 	irq = 4
> syntax as well as the
> 	ioports = ['3f8-3ff']
> 	irq = [4]
> but it looks like you are actually using the array version anyway?

I use this syntax with xm:

ioports=['0378-037a']
irq=[5]

and it works good.


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Best regards

  Dieter

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