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Re: [Xen-devel] GPLPV + Xen Unstable BSOD

To: James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] GPLPV + Xen Unstable BSOD
From: Andrew Lyon <andrew.lyon@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:28:57 +0000
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On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Andrew Lyon <andrew.lyon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:24 PM, James Harper
> <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> James,
>>>
>>> Are there known issues with GPLPV and Xen unstable? I tried to load
>>> 0.9.11 onto Windows XP SP2 32 bit with 2 CPUS and after the 3rd prompt
>>> for driver signing I get a BSOD with error code 7E
>>> (SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED).
>>>
>>
>> I haven't tested with -unstable so I can't comment. If you can spare the
>> time (and aren't afraid of your DomU getting hosed), please test with
>> "Xen PV Drivers 0.9.12-pre15-dont-use.exe". That includes the TPR
>> patching which will give you a big performance boost under XP (and 2003
>> < sp2). You need to specify /PATCHTPR on the boot.ini to get that effect
>> though.
>
> I tried "Xen PV Drivers 0.9.12-pre15-dont-use.exe" and got the same
> BSOD with 7E error code.
>
> I have a spare system running Xen unstable which has a freshly
> installed xp vm on lvm snapshot, so I can do as much testing as
> necessary to help get this working.
>
> Please let me know what I need to do to help you fix this.

Attached new screenshot of 0.9.12 pre15 DNU.

Andy

>
> Andy
>
>>
>> I'm in the middle of some fairly major changes at the moment, but it's
>> looking good so far.
>>
>> James
>>
>

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