Short follow-up: I had to revert to the stock xen. With the newer version, Java in the VM went nuts, taking 99% of the CPU. Beats me why... /me eagerly waiting for the newer stock version Manuel Wolfshant wrote: > Just for the record: due to lack of time (I am really really under > pressure and I do not have the time to compile the xen version from > 5.3 ), I have switched to a custom built xen-3.3.0 and it works as it > should. > > Manuel > > Manuel Wolfshant wrote: >> Hello >> >> I use xen and I am trying to use the parallel port of Centos 5.2 >> host from a Windows XP (HVM) guest. I have tried to transfer control >> of the port by blacklisting lp, parport and parport_pc + adding: >> ioports = [ "0378-037a" ] >> to the xen configuration file. >> >> However, in the presence of this line, xm create replies with: >> >> Error: function takes exactly 4 arguments (3 given) >> [...] >> Except of a bug from 2007 and which should be fixed for a long >> time (and which is only PARTIALLY included in xen as available in >> 5.2), I have not found anything. I did apply the unapplied part of >> http://bugs.centos.org/file_download.php?file_id=474&type=bug but >> there is no change. >> >> Any ideas ? >> TIA >> >> manuel >> >