Installing Signed Windows GPLPV Drivers in Xen
This used to be a bigger issue but now thanks to the signed drivers there’s very little more to do than download the drivers in Windows and install them: Latest Xen PV Drivers
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Installing Windows GPLPV Drivers in Xen
I’ve done this enough times to know it by heart but I remember when I tried to find documentation on this step I ran into countless inaccurate and outdated examples. So here’s what I do to get the Windows GPL PV drivers installed under Xen. Download the drivers from meadowcourt.org. As of 1/18/2012 the latest …
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Running Xen on Various Linux Distributions
I have been looking to various GNU/Linux distributions to determine their level of support for Xen. Here’s what I found: Debian Etch – Xen Hypervisor 3.2.1 (via backports), Linux kernel 2.6.26 (via backports) Debian Lenny – Xen Hypervisor 3.2.1, Linux dom0 kernel 2.6.26 Debian Squeeze (testing) – Xen Hypervisor 3.4.2, Linux dom0 kernel ??? Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) …
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Fixing pygrub in Ubuntu 9.04
I think Ubuntu 9.04 is the only version of Ubuntu suffering from this bug but it appears as though no fix for this serious regression will be forthcoming. To get pygrub to work you actually have to fix a bug in the python 2.5 curses library. Open “/usr/lib/python2.5/curses/__init__.py” and add the following lines starting at …