Re: [Xen-devel] XCP PV driver

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 10:08:58AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 09:51 +0000, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 08:34:25AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 22:21 +0000, James Harper wrote: 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Is the latest GP PV driver, signed and will it install on 2008 without
> > > > > requiring "bcdedit driver signing off"?
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > It's test signed. You have to turn testsigning on for 64 bit windows.
> > > 
> > > Is that process documented somewhere? I was trying to install gplpv
> > > drivers on 2008r2 yesterday to try and repro a backend bug and couldn't
> > > get it to work.
> > > 
> > 
> > I've been planning to update Gplpv instructions on the wiki, 
> > since that's very common source of questions on xen-users and on irc..
> 
> Thanks. I changed the note about test signing to:
>         __'''NOTE:'''__ x64 versions of Vista and Server 2008 require
>         signed drivers. The GPLPV drivers are only test signed. In order
>         to use them you need to enable test signing by running
>         "bcdedit /set testsigning on" and rebooting.
> which I hope is somewhat accurate.
> 

That's better.

The really important point is to reboot *before* installing gplpv.

testsigning needs to be enabled when installing gplpv drivers,
and it gets enabled on reboot.

-- Pasi


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