RE: [Xen-users] GPL PV SCSI driver

["James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Has anyone had any success with the GPL PV scsi driver with Xen-3.3?
I'm
> experiencing a BSOD in xenpci.sys when I attach a scsi device:
> 
> xm scsi-attach winxp /dev/sda 0:0:0:0
> 
> I've built checked versions of the drivers and have tracked this down
to
> the
> xenpci driver trying to look for the string "b-dev" in the xenbus and
> failing to find it.  I'm not quite sure where the string b-dev is
supposed
> to come from -- it doesn't exist at all in the xen-3.3-testing
codebase
> and
> the linux scsi{front,back} drivers don't contain it either.  Perhaps
the
> VSCSI mechanism has changed since the windows driver was initially
> developed?
> 
> If anyone is successfully using the PV scsi driver, I'd be curious to
hear
> about your setup and domain configuration.
> 

Yes, the pvscsi side of things has changed significantly. The xenscsi
driver worked with the first cut of the patches that worked with xen
3.2, which is significantly different to the version that came out in
3.3.

I haven't yet had time to set up 3.3 to update the driver, but may have
in the next month or so.

James

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