Re: [Xen-users] Release 0.8.0 of GPL PV Drivers for Windows

[Alexander Piavka <piavka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Hi James,

A dumb question, do the GPL PV Drivers for Windows require
any special xen version on the dom0 side, will vanilla xen-3.1 kernel work 
or i need xen-3.2 kernel?
 Thanks
 Alex

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, James Harper wrote:

> I've just uploaded the latest release of the GPL PV drivers for Windows.
> The changes in this version are:
>
> . Bug fixes to xennet.
> . Bug fixes elsewhere.
> . Better prevention of the qemu block device loading when /gplpv is
> specified
> . pvSCSI support (eg can pass through tape drives and cd burners,
> although I haven't tested the latter). This hasn't seen nearly as much
> testing as everything else, but I've run the tests in the HP Library &
> Tape Tools successfully, including a firmware update.
> . very basic installer - just run install.bat and then click lots of
> times.
>
> I highly recommend uninstalling all trace of any previous version before
> installing this one. Particularly put the Windows PCI Bus driver back
> the way it was (eg update drivers and just click next a few times).
>
> Also, if you boot up with /GPLPV, and notice any qemu block devices,
> destroy the domain immediately as there is a high chance of data
> corruption! Also please let me know if this happens.
>
> Still outstanding bugs:
> . If windows bug checks, it still won't write out a bug check file, just
> hangs instead.
> . pvSCSI appears to have a race in it that leaves windows stuck at the
> loading screen sometimes.
> . SMP hasn't been thoroughly tested
> . XP doesn't support the synchronisation calls I am using so they have
> been omitted - very slight chance of races during device enumeration.
>
> If you want to make use of the pvSCSI drivers, see the patches posted to
> -dev by Jun Kamada. I have managed to build it under Debian by applying
> the patches to the Debian Xen source and then making the hypervisor and
> tools packages, and then building the backend out of tree. I needed to
> greatly increase the scsi timeout for my tape drive to work reliably
> (default is 5 seconds, needs to be more like 10 minutes or more - I made
> it an hour).
>
> Download at http://www.meadowcourt.org/WindowsXenPV-0.8.0.zip . Any and
> all feedback appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> James
>
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