Re: [Xen-users] BSOD after installing EJB Digital GPLPV Drivers on fresh Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise

[Jan Hejl <jh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dne 8.1.2014 23:01, James Harper napsal(a):
> > Dne 8.1.2014 01:06, James Harper napsal(a):
> > > > Hi everyone,
> > > >
> > > > i've just installed new (clean and fully updated) Windows 2008 R2
> > > > Enterprise domU on Xen 4.3.1-r1 (Gentoo, hardened, kernel 3.11.2) as
> > > > PVHVM and tried to install GPLPV to make it work as proper PVHVM
> > domU.
> > > > But after installing the newest signed drivers from
> > > > http://www.ejbdigital.com.au/GPLPV/ (doesn't matter which version) it
> > > > seems fine until reboot. Then it throws BSOD with
> > > > DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (see attached image).
> > > >
> > > > Same problem with older Univention drivers.
> > > >
> > > > When I remove vif device from xen config file, windows domU goes fine,
> > > > but it's useless without internet connection.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas what can be wrong? Disabling IPv6 through regedit didn't help
> > > > at all.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > vif = [
> > > >         'bridge=xenbr1, script=vif-bridge, mac=00:16:3e:58:cc:24,
> > > > model=e1000'
> > > > ]
> > > Can you try omitting the model from the vif declaration? That's the only
> > difference I can see between yours and my servers.
> > > The crashing driver is reported as sacdrv.sys, but that's part of the OS as far
> > as I can tell. Maybe there is something about the e1000 driver that windows
> > doesn't like having it unplugged by GPLPV?
> > > James
> > Hi James,
> >
> > unfortunately ommiting model declaration didn't help. I also tried to
> > install last drivers from uninvention.de (with ommited model
> > declaration) and it throws another exception (see attachment).
> >
> > Could you please post your config, please?
> >
> > Maybe i'm missing something, could you please post your install steps?
> > Or check mine?
> >
> > 1. Install clean Windows 2008 R2 machine
> > 2. Install all windows updates
> > 3. Install GPLPV drivers.
> > 4. ... it should work, but it doesn't for me ...
> I always install PV drivers before installing updates (takes forever 
> otherwise), but other than that that's exactly what I do. Installing the 
> updates first won't make a difference.
>
> Next, please make the following changes to your config file, just to test:
>
> Change memory to 2048
> Get rid of audio= and soundhw= lines
> Change vcpus to 1
>
> If that resolves the problem, please tinker with the above to see if you can 
> isolate which caused the problem. If I get a minute I'll try your config on my 
> server. I'm not confident that it will make any difference though.
>
> Are you using a non-english version of Windows. I seem to remember someone else 
> reporting a problem that I couldn't reproduce, and the only difference was that 
> they were using a non-english version of Windows. If you are, do you have an 
> English language version you could test with to see if the problem remains?
>
> Thanks
>
> James
Changes to domU configuration didn't help.

The only thing that left to be different (in my opinion) was Windows 
edition. So I installed Windows 2008 R2 Standard x64 edition (all the 
time it is packed with SP1, English version) and it works! Hell yeah! I 
also was able to run domU with 8 vcpus and 16GB of memory.
Is there anything that could break things on Enterprise edition? Do you 
want me to do some other tests/debugs?
Thank you!
Jan

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