[et-mgmt-tools] virtinst: acpi/apic == FALSE for Windows XP

Laurent Léonard laurent at open-minds.org
Tue Jul 14 18:52:48 UTC 2009


Le mardi 14 juillet 2009 à 18:16, Cole Robinson a écrit :
> 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.

I'm not sure but, why did you re-specify the value for non-Xen <3.1 hosts in 
each item if the ACPI and APIC are already enabled by default for Windows 
variants ?

What about this:

    },
    "variants": { \
        "winxp":{ "label": "Microsoft Windows XP (x86)",
                  "acpi": [ ("xen", 3001000, False) ],
                  "apic": [ ("xen", 3001000, False) ] },
        "winxp64":{ "label": "Microsoft Windows XP (x86_64)" },
        "win2k": { "label": "Microsoft Windows 2000",
                  "acpi": [ ("xen", 3001000, False) ],
                  "apic": [ ("xen", 3001000, False) ] },
        "win2k3": { "label": "Microsoft Windows 2003" },
        "win2k8": { "label": "Microsoft Windows 2008" },
        "vista": { "label": "Microsoft Windows Vista" },

instead of this:

    },
    "variants": { \
        "winxp":{ "label": "Microsoft Windows XP (x86)",
                  "acpi": [ ("xen", 3001000, False),
                            ("all", True ), ],
                  "apic": [ ("xen", 3001000, False),
                            ("all", True ), ], },
        "winxp64":{ "label": "Microsoft Windows XP (x86_64)" },
        "win2k": { "label": "Microsoft Windows 2000",
                  "acpi": [ ("xen", 3001000, False),
                            ("all", True ), ],
                  "apic": [ ("xen", 3001000, False),
                            ("all", True ), ], },
        "win2k3": { "label": "Microsoft Windows 2003" },
        "win2k8": { "label": "Microsoft Windows 2008" },
        "vista": { "label": "Microsoft Windows Vista" },

-- 
Laurent Léonard
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