@olivierlambert

Thank you, i am trying Xen 7.0 at the moment, download links for 7.1 LTS seem to be unavailable.

Was hoping some 2008 tools that i didnt find thanks dude

Migrating my company from 2008 era to 2019. Everything perfect except one of my VMs has to be on Svr 2008 (Internal bespoke software - developers are working on an upgrade but months away.)

So i have 2 new HPE boxes 1 for failover.
Running XCP-NG Latest and Xen Orchestra (self compiled while testing) DC and EX working fine read/write perfect all wonderful but for the 2008 box...

I cannot get any form of xen tools or xcp tools to work Xen tools just brick the VM and xcp tools cannot start service. I know it's not supported but somebody may know!
I can get the "I/O Optimized" by letting windows update do it's thing which improved things slightly but not enough read/write speed is exceptionally slow. unworkable.
The standard XCP tools will not install, it cannot start the service

Everything is fine except disk read/write speed

Anyone know a workaround?