Re: [Xen-devel] fyi, Xen's EFI workarounds (/mapbs & efi=no-rs) on SuperMicro hardware; fixes solve 1/2 problems & SM responds that can't/won't fix their firmware

2015-12-04 Thread Zir Blazer
> Hardware is a SuperMicro X10SAT motherboard > (http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C220/X10SAT.cfm), > with AMI v3 BIOS + "UEFI support" > > Two issues exist with the SuperMicro EFI > > (1) firmware EFI mis-mapping causing Xen PANIC on restart > (2) EFI variables not persistent ac

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2][RFC] libxl: Add AHCI support for upstream qemu

2015-06-11 Thread Zir Blazer
Since I'm not a developer I may be peeking my nose a bit too far, but based on what I know, I think that enabling AHCI by default would be a compatibility suicide. I'm not sure about Linux and Windows Vista/7/8+, but at least for Windows XP based VMs, it would be a terrible idea. Back during W

[Xen-devel] Zir Blazer's guide to install Arch Linux and Xen - need feedback

2015-04-08 Thread Zir Blazer
A year or so ago I had done a near identical guide in spanish, to make installing Xen more accessible to hispanic people. However, I figured out that pretty much everyone which was interesed in it, didn't had the proper Hardware to try Passthrough, and anyone who does, should have no issues unde

Re: [Xen-devel] Testing Xen 4.5 and PCI/VGA Passthrough - my regression was fixed

2015-04-03 Thread Zir Blazer
>> While I didn't tested a lot, nearly everything seems to be working. The only >> discovered two issues are: >> It may be just placebo, but I think that the DomU takes a bit more time >> while booting, and also after I shut down it from inside. With xl list, I >> see that it stays around 20 sec

[Xen-devel] Testing Xen 4.5 and PCI/VGA Passthrough - my regression was fixed

2015-04-02 Thread Zir Blazer
This E-Mail is a followup of the previous one about the regression I had in Xen 4.4 compared to 4.3, here: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/xen/devel/351336 http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-10/msg01341.html (This one is missing from the previous link, here I discovered a wor

[Xen-devel] Some questions regarding QEMU, UEFI, PCI/VGA Passthrough, and other things

2014-12-05 Thread Zir Blazer
While I am not a developer myself (I always sucked hard when it comes to read and write code), there are several capabilities of Xen and its supporting Software which I'm always interesed in how they progress, more out of curiosity than anything else. However, usually, documentation seems to bac

Re: [Xen-devel] PCI and VGA Passthrough regressions on Xen 4.4.1 vs 4.3.2

2014-11-15 Thread Zir Blazer
.1 vs > 4.3.2 > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 04:08:14PM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 03:55:36AM -0300, Zir Blazer wrote: >>> There is a regression in both PCI and VGA Passthrough in Xen 4.4.1 when >>> compared to 4.3.2. Due to th