Xen GPLPV Drivers

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Xen Windows GPLPV Driver Installation Steps

1. Start the VM with out GPLPV flag from FluidVM.

2. Now run 'Xen PV Drivers 0.9.11-pre17.exe' (which is latest while our test).

3. Above step will install ShutdownMon as a service. For the shutdown monitor, which handles the graceful shutdown/reboot requests from Dom0, you will need the .NET framework 2.0 installed.

4. Open c:\boot.ini, Copy and paste your normal boot entry and add /gplpv at the end of the line. you can change default 'timeout=30' by changing the timeout value. 


[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows Server 2003 Datacenter x64 Edition, GPLPV" /noexecute=optout /fastdetect /gplpv
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows Server 2003 Datacenter x64 Edition" /noexecute=optout /fastdetect

5. Now save boot.ini file and close.

6. Shutdown your VM.

7. Start VM with GPLPV flag from FluidVM. ("Settings" pane once you click on the VM)

8. You can see two boot entry option, select GPLPV boot entry to boot.

9. We recommend you to boot into GPLPV with only 'start with GPLPV' from FluidVM.

10. We recommend you to not boot into GPLPV with out installing GPLPV Drivers in VM. This is sure to lead you into trouble.

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