From e1a37a5f6fd1ae881d87317ed2e34c2e4360d454 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Campbell Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:19:59 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] docs: improve documantion of xl's viridian option Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell Committed-by: Ian Jackson Acked-by: Ian Jackson --- docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5 | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5 b/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5 index 33a3256c22..9d90290cc1 100644 --- a/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5 +++ b/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5 @@ -555,7 +555,13 @@ Windows L. Turns on or off the exposure of MicroSoft Hyper-V (AKA viridian) compatible enlightenments to the guest. These can improve performance -of Microsoft Windows guests (XXX which versions of Windows benefit?) +of Microsoft Windows guests from Windows Vista and Windows 2008 +onwards and setting this option for such guests is strongly +recommended. This option should be harmless for other versions of +Windows (although it won't give any benefit) and the majority of other +non-Windows OSes. However it is known to be incompatible with some +other Operating Systems and in some circumstance can prevent Xen's own +paravirtualisation interfaces for HVM guests from being used. =back -- 2.30.2