[Xen-users] RE: Windows assigned 4GB RAM BSOD with GPLPV (0.9.10)

["James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: terii wang [mailto:terii@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, 9 October 2008 08:43
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: James Harper
> Subject: Windows assigned 4GB RAM BSOD with GPLPV (0.9.10)
> 
> I'm about to deploying a Xen server running three Windows Sever 2003
> standard edition domUs into production.
> 
> While working with my Windows team I discovered couple a problems.
> 
> 1) domUs would freeze on reboot/shutdown when assigned 4 CPUs. dom0
> have 8 physical CPUs. Adjusting it to 2 seems to remedy this problem.
> 
> 2) BSOD during booting with 4GB RAM allocated. dom0 have 16GB.
> Adjusting it to 2GB seems to remedy this problem.
> 
> I can live without #1. But I would need 4GB RAM for one of the domU.
> Due to fact it is a Citrix presentation server.
> 
> Anyone experienced similar problems?
> 
> 
> 
> When I boot with non-GPLPV drivers, those two problems seems to go
> away. Due to deadlines I probably push those into production without
> using GPLPV, for now.

Can you please test a later version of the GPLPV drivers? 0.9.11-pre18
is the latest. I know I fixed a 4G problem at some point, but I thought
that was earlier than 0.9.10. Also, can you give me the BSoD numbers?

I have tested with 4CPU's and have not noticed a problem before.
 
> I have snapshotted the problematic LVMs if anyone is interested in
> debugging with me. If so, give me some instructions to do so. I guess
> this should help out solidify GPLPV drivers. :)

James

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