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Re: [Xen-devel] XCP Windows PV Driver Problem

On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 09:50:56AM +0000, Paul Durrant wrote:
> Well, your problem starts with this line from the log:
> 
> [ERROR][XENVBD] Failed to set frontend key for data/scsi/target/0 
> (device/vbd/768, c0000022)
> 
> This means that for some reason xenstore did not like our attempt to set 
> a key data/scsi/0 with our frontend VBD path. The error was EACCES; my 
> guess is because the data key has not been created under /local/domain/X 
> by the open source toolstack.
> The crash is then:
> 
> [NOTICE][XENUTIL] Bugcheck: 7b F8856A98, C0000034, 00000000, 00000000
> 
> (which does not match the BSOD, which is an ASSERTion failure)
> 
> This indicates, unsurprisingly, that Windows has no boot device.
> 
> Could you bring up your Windows and pause the boot (hit F8 or something) 
> and then go in and create the data key (using xenstore_write and 
> xenstore_chmod, to give the domain write perms.) from dom0 and then let 
> Windows continue booting. This should hopefully allow the domain to then 
> come up.
> 

So I guess this means the normal Xen 3.4.x and xen-unstable toolstacks
should be patched to allow these XCP Windows PV drivers to be used? 

-- Pasi


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