Re: [Xen-users] Windows PV drivers

[Adam Goryachev <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/01/17 20:40, Éliás Tamás wrote:
> Hi.
>
> > Are you able to advise what I might have done wrong in this process?
> Seemes to me correct, I'm just missing a step, where the system asks for
> wether or not to trust "Linux foundation", when installing the drivers?!
Sorry, I had already done this previously when attempting the installs, 
and I had set the option to always trust drivers from this source.
> Start a CMD.EXE as admin, and pls see dpinst.exe /? options. I recommend
> to first do a complete uninstallation (and if you have older drivers
> like glpv, uninstall them as well).
>
> By manually starting dpinst.exe you will have more options to see what
> has failed. What is written in the system logs/application log? There
> must be a reasoning there.
Before I got this email, I decided maybe I should uninstall the GPLPV 
drivers, so I did that, and then installed all the drivers and they all 
worked. Except now I can't startup the VM. It boots and sits with the 
spinning circle forever (overnight...)
I can startup in safe mode, and tried to re-install all the drivers ( 
version 8.1.0 ) and they were all successful, but I still can't bootup 
in "normal mode", only safe mode will work.
Should I start over? (I have a LV snapshot I can revert to...)
If I start over, how should I proceed?
a) Remove all GPLPV drivers
b) reboot
c) Install all 8.1.0 version of drivers
d) reboot

Or skip B, or something else?

Thank you again for your help.

Regards,
Adam

> > > However, as a personal experience, I recommend for you to wait till the
> > > final release of
> > >
> > > https://xenbits.xen.org/pvdrivers/win/8.2.0/
> > >
> > > (logo testing is just done, so we can expect the signed version withi
> > > 1-2 months hopefully)
> > Do you mean because it is easier to install, or because it is more
> > stable (fixes some bugs in 8.1.0)?
> It is installed absolutely the same way, it has just a more mature more
> compatible and generally better codebase.
>
> > Is it possible to simply install the current version of 8.2.0, and then
> > update when the final release is done?
> It is, but currently those drivers are not signed, which menas, you have
> to enable testsigning if you want them to work. (BCDEDIT.EXE
> /TESTSIGNING ON)
>
> > Regards,
> > Adam
> >
> > > 2017-01-04 14:26 keltezéssel, Adam Goryachev írta:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I'm in the process of upgrading from xen 4.1 to xen 4.4 and have a
> > > > number of windows domU's running Windows Server 2012R2 with one of the
> > > > ejb versions of the GPLPV drivers installed.
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone advise which are the best drivers to install for production
> > > > use today, and how they went about installing them?
> > > >
> > > > So far, I've managed to boot my testing domU under 4.4, but I can't
> > > > install the drivers form
> > > > https://xenproject.org/downloads/windows-pv-drivers.html even after
> > > > installing the certificate.
> > > >
> > > > I would prefer to use debian testing, but would I perhaps be better off
> > > > switching to XenServer and using the XenServer version of the PV
> > > > drivers? Or can I use the XenServer version of the drivers with plain
> > > > debian + xen?
> > > >
> > > > Would appreciate any advice from others who have managed to get this to
> > > > work well, especially in a production environment.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Adam


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