Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [BUG 1747]Guest could't find bootable device with memory more than 3600M

[Ian Campbell]

On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 12:56 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 12.06.13 at 13:23, Ian Campbell <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 11:07 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:

> >> And then - this might cover Linux, but what about other OSes,
> >> namely Windows?
> > 
> > True, I'm not sure if/how this can be done.
> > 
> > The only reference I could find was at
> > http://windows.microsoft.com/en-id/windows7/using-system-configuration 
> > which says under "Advanced boot options":
> >         PCI Lock. Prevents Windows from reallocating I/O and IRQ
> >         resources on the PCI bus. The I/O and memory resources set by
> >         the BIOS are preserved.
> > 
> > Which seems to suggest the default is to reallocate, but I don't know.
> 
> Without having known of this option, I would take it as "may", not
> "will" reallocate.

That does seem likely, yes.

Ian.