Xen HVM Win2k3 guest - network

[shoom013]

I have a pain-staking problem with network on Win2k3 guest on IA64 host with Red Hat 5.3 - by default it uses Realtek 8139 which is not supported on Win2k3 in any way, and changing the model (model=whatever in vif=...) doesn't change anything - it always ends with *!@#! Realtek ... now, I am very tired of trying out different things (compiling Xen from src.rpm, from xensource xen-unstable.hg, trying vfirmware from xensource, different parameters in guest specification, I don't know ..) - nothing helps. Thing is that I am trying to make the proof of concept in my company for RHEL5.3 as platform for Itanium virtualization (BL380c) in order to get full support contract with Red Hat as a breakthrough ... but it seems that Microsoft always has to win, I vae tried to ring every bell available, but nothing came and now I am tired and worn out completely ... If anyone has any idea, hint, something, please tell me.
shoom013@gmail.com

[Rubberman]

Have you tried using Sun's VirtualBox VMM instead of Xen? I found it works a lot better in these sort of situations, especially since other than a loadable kernel module, it doesn't mung with the kernel itself like Xen does.

[shoom013]

Have you tried using Sun's VirtualBox VMM instead of Xen? I found it works a lot better in these sort of situations, especially since other than a loadable kernel module, it doesn't mung with the kernel itself like Xen does.

No, I haven't even heard about it ... if it supports ia64, then fine - I will test it and let you know !
ZP.

[Rubberman]

It (VirtualBox) supports 32 and 64bit clients on 64bit hosts. Obviously not the other way around. I use it to run Windows, Solaris, and other Linux distributions.