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RE: [Xen-devel] RE: [Xen-users] Release 0.8.7 of GPL PV drivers forWindo

To: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Florian Manschwetus" <florianmanschwetus@xxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] RE: [Xen-users] Release 0.8.7 of GPL PV drivers forWindows
From: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:25:25 +1100
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> It could also be that Windows 2008 doesn't support NDIS5.1, in which
case
> I don't expect the above to tell us anything useful.

According to a pre-longhorn power point document that google turned up:

"
NDIS 5.1 drivers using NDIS_PACKETs are supported in Windows codenamed
"Longhorn"- but not as high a performance as NDIS 6.0 drivers due to
translation overhead
"

So that shouldn't be the problem you are seeing.

Did a previous version of xennet work at all?

James

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