Windows PV Drivers Presentation

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Hi, I’m Paul Durrant. I’m a principal engineer in the XenServer group at Citrix and I’m project lead for the XenProject Windows PV Drivers.

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In this presentation I’m going to be giving an overview of the drivers.

We’ll start with the origins of the drivers, and the journey from the original XenServer-specific closed-source ‘Legacy’ drivers, through the open source XenServer drivers (dubbed the ‘Standard’ drivers in Citrix and available on GitHub), to the current generic XenProject drivers, the source of which is now hosted on Xenbits.

I’ll then move on to the way that functionality is broken down into interfaces, how they are provided and consumed, and how compatibility is maintained as they evolve.

And finally I’ll give a brief overview of what you need to do to build and install the drivers, and contribute to the project.