[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] GPLPV drivers update
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Andrew Lyon<andrew.lyon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:37 AM, James > Harper<james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I have just uploaded a new testing version of GPL PV drivers for >> Windows. Have a look for 0.10.0.97-dontuse at >> http://www.meadowcourt.org/downloads (the -dontuse bit is to scare >> people away who haven't read this email :) >> >> As usual, please test thoroughly on a test DomU and make sure you have a >> backup before installing on a non-test system. In particular, I'm only >> testing with Xen 3.4.1 these days so anything older isn't tested >> although it should work. >> >> There was a problem with the signing of the drivers that would prevent >> them working properly under Vista/2008 x64 even with testsigning >> enabled. This should resolve that. >> >> The installation procedure for Vista/2008 x64 is as follows: >> . Run 'bcdedit /set testsigning on' >> . Reboot >> . Install the drivers. Accept any warnings and tick 'always trust...' >> when prompted. >> . Make sure you now have PV network and SCSI adapters present >> . Reboot >> >> If something doesn't work, you should be able to boot to safe mode >> unless you forgot to run 'bcdedit /set testsigning on' in which case you >> will probably have an unbootable system... for some reason the vista F8 >> boot menu doesn't allow you to turn on testsigning and safe mode at the >> same time. Ideally the installer would be able to detect that we are >> using a test certificate and instruct you to turn on testsigning first >> but I don't yet know how to do that. I'll see if I can at least put in a >> loud warning at installation time... >> >> James >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Xen-devel mailing list >> Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel >> > > James, > > Happy to report that I've tested the new drivers on a freshly > installed windows 2008 x64 hvm and after following your instructions > and rebooting the correct drivers appeared in device manager and the > performance increased as expected. > > Then I decided to try backing out the kludge I had added to > makedist.bat to bypass signing, this time a new certificate was > generated and the drivers compiled without error, but during > installation the system bugchecked with a error in xenpci.sys, after > rebooting I retried the installation and the correct Xen PCI device > driver and other devices were detected but when I rebooted again the > system bugchecked. > > I will do more testing to see if I get consistent results, I would > expect the msi that you released and the one I compiled to behave > exactly the same as I did a "hg pull" before compiling and "hg diff" > shows that my tree is the same as yours. > > Andy > > > Andy > Just tried installing your MSI onto the 2008x64 hvm and got the same bugcheck, so it seems to be slightly random... Andy _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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